Re: [xml-dev] SGML queries

John Cowan <> wrote:

| What's amazing is that an SGML construction was waiting in the 
| wings that would grandfather such cruft and make it valid SGML.

Indeed.  Taking that "out" was IMHO the single greatest disaster to
afflict the web.  It was a classic example of Sufficient Ingenuity.  

The rest has been, not history, but angst and humbug.