Re: [LUG] more study required - RE: What I've found so far XML

[Steve Marvell <steve@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:44:26PM +0300, Kai Hendry wrote:

> HTML and XML are subsets of SGML.

With the greatest of respect, that's complete bollocks, as has already
been discussed in this thread.

> > HTML is to XML as a WinZip (written in C++) is to Java.
>
> Eh?

HTML is an application of SGML, not XML.

> XHTML is really nice as it forces nice code layout. all tags must be
> complete and in lower case for example. Older versions of HTML were less
> strict.

XHTML is the XML version of HTML. That is, you have to have all the
closed tags, quoted attributes, etc and consiquently, it's a right
ballache to write by hand. It's also larger, data-wise, but that
doesn't really matter when images are involved :)

Steve

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