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Subject:Re: SGML -- Still in use today? From:Kees de Bondt <cbon -at- WXS -dot- NL> Date:Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:45:46 +0100
On 31-03 Mary Nurminen wrote:
>What everyone's waiting for now is XML, which supposedly will replace both
SGML
>and HTML as the perfect in-between which uses the best of both (that's
>what I've gathered, anyway, don't know much about it).
XML will not replace SGML or HTML because there are things that SGML can
handle what XML can't.
XML is a simplified SGML-version optimized for use by web-authors and to
lower the technical barriers of full SGML to a wider 'audience'.
HTML will remain the low-end solution for quick, simple things.
>I don't know how much SGML will do for you on a resume in the States, but
>it'll get you in many doors in Europe.
SGML is one of the standards in the US DoD CALS programs.
Regards
Kees de Bondt
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