RE: Allocated chapter numbers for specific chapter content

[eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com]

bounce-techwr-l-106467 -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com wrote on 09/20/2004 03:25:24 AM:
> Correct me if I'm wrong (as I belong to the XML 
> generation), but wasn't
> the problem with SGML that it was an overly complex 
> standard, where 95 %
> of the users used only 5 % of the standard's possibilites,
> and that this
> fact was one of the problems that eventually led to XML?

IMO, XML just got hyped better than SGML and was introduced at a time 
X-anything was embraced as the "in thing". Nobody has given me any 
convincing evidence of XML being "simpler" than SGML.

With the inclusion of XPath, namespaces and all, it would seem that XML is 
more complex than SGML ever was.

Eric L. Dunn
Senior Technical Writer

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