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

[Steve Marvell <steve@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 07:09:56PM +0100, Nick Kew wrote:

> > > what would you use to write an SGML doc? notepad?
>
> emacs is (can be made) SGML-aware.

It is by default, in fact.

> But more generally, yes, XML is much bigger.  I think the overriding
> reason for that is the fact that the XML specs are available online,
> while the SGML specs are fiercely guarded and expensive, raising
> the barrier to entry.

I think it's because XML is easier to parse, allowing it to be used
for "in time" applications such as web stuff. If you developed a
plugin, it'd be massive and consiquently take ages to download, if it
were SGML compliant.

Steve

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