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Subject: Re: Experiences of XML parser generators for Ada?
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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
Date: 06 Dec 2004 19:12:23 +0100
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Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com> writes:

> But was not the idea of XML that - by using an appropriate CSS - the data
> can be rendered by a browser for easy reading? And don't you need to
> seperate data from markup to archive that:

Certainly not! XML is a way to structure information (document, data, ...) it
is a simple SGML (SGML has been around since a long time). The problem with
SGML was that it was too complex to be widespead... and tools were very
expensive. In this sense XML is very successful!

Pascal.

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