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On 05/06/2023 16:41, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote: Marcus Reichardt <u123724@g...> writes: [...] In that case, I guess it's relatively safe to say this is neither very easy nor relevant since, fortunately you might say, nobody is creating XML parsers from scratch. Not counting every single CS student who is handed the task at some stage in their undergraduate career, as an example of how you cannot do it in the traditional one-night hack assigned to coursework designed to be done over 2–3 weeks. I don't think that was deliberate, but SGML was not written to pleaseIn 1988, if I remember correctly, I heard a well known computer scientist explain [...] It's no wonder there are so few SGML tools, he said. The spec goes out of its way to put unnecessary barriers in the way. computer scientists. It was left up to the computer scientists (read: "developers") to make it work (now where have I heard *that* before?). Peter
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