[SML] RE: Forget SML. We need RTSML.

[Joe Lapp]

I don't understand this proposal.  You can't represent structured data with
it.  What am I missing?

At 05:36 PM 11/28/1999 +0000, Mark Birbeck wrote:
>Jelks,
>
>I don't know why you're missing the obvious point, which is that there
>is lot of programming overhead in allowing any tag to be used. It's also
>very confusing for beginners. Far better to restrict the language to one
>tag:
>
> 	document ::= StartTag Stuff EndTag
> 	StartTag ::= '<RTSML>'
> 	EndTag   ::= '</RTSML>'
>
>I was wondering why we couldn't have '/' as the end tag, if there is
>only one, but I think that would weaken the error-chocking capabilities.
>
>You also said:
>
>> We expect RTSML 1.0 to be a WFeCes Recommendation on April 1, 
>> 1999 or day after
>> tomorrow (whichever comes first).
>
>I assume this was a typong mistake; you surely mean in the 1st April,
>2000?
>
>Mark
>
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