Re: XML - where's the beef?
Leslie Bonser writes:
... HTML, XML, and all the variants are simply specific SGML documenttypes.
Apologies if someone else beat me to it, but XML is a standard for creating
languages, like SGML, not a specific document type, like HTML and XHTML.
Michael Priestley
That is an interesting interpretation of it. XML is not a standard for creating languages. It IS a markup language. As for HTML, it IS a subset of SGML. You cannot have an animal descended from a bird and call it a horse. It is still a bird.
So, if HTML is a specific document type, then its parent, SGML, is also a document type. So is XML. That is what the element <!DOCTYPE is declaring.
Scott
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