SGML, XML and SML

[Julian Reschke]

> From: owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk [mailto:owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
> David Megginson
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 2:14 PM
> To: xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: SGML, XML and SML
>
>
> Sean McGrath <digitome at iol.ie> writes:
>
> > Any SML doc is an XML doc but not the other way around.
> >
> > 	SML < XML < SGML
>
> That gets you into the subset dilemma: all conformant XML processors
> will be able to handle SML, but not all conformant SML processors will
> be able to handle XML.

Why would that be a dilemma? That was exactly the goal, correct?

I really think it would be A Good Thing to have a common name for XML minus
a list of features...



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