On Mar 2, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Len Bullard wrote:
> 1. The "NO DTD" crew lost. There was too much experience with
> DTDless
> systems at the time to let that happen. The optional DTD crew won
> because
> we had plenty of experience with that.
One side of that was that people found DTD's to be useful only at
certain points in the process... during the production process a
document is not always/seldom 'valid'. Market forces made them
optional ;-)
> 2. The cost of an SGML parser had already gone to zero by the time
> the SGML
> ERB was formed.
I think that there were actually few, if any 'true' SGML parsers. The
reality was that a significant number of SGML *subset* parsers
existing that shared a fairly common set of features.
> Things improved as they will in a technology that is heavily used
> and more
> people get a voice. Speeches that justify the mistakes or the
> triumphs at
> the expense of the pioneers don't help.
Very true, though it is useful to see everyone's perspectives on the
battle for supremacy.
