DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: SGML vs XML

From
Karl Eichwalder <>
Date
2002-07-31T13:25:22+00:00
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DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: SGML vs XML
Norman Walsh <> writes:

> Not if you insist that the document validate both before and after
> profiling. One might be satisfied to have validation only after. I
> wouldn't, I don't think, but one might.

Validating before will tell you the XML file is valid -- it will say
nothing about the document you are actually interested in.

> Anyway, we aren't getting marked sections back so I think the
> element-based approach is what we're stuck with.

It's just a little statement in the SGML declaration of XML.  At the
authoring stage it might be helpful to add some features to
xml.d[e]cl -- later on you can sgmlnorm and sgml2xml on your file.

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