Talk:Standard Generalized Markup Language
The following has, I think, an error (XML came after HTML, no?): "HTML was originally designed based on XML tagging but without SGML's emphasis on rigorous markup." Probably should read: "HTML was originally designed based on SGML tagging but without SGML's emphasis on rigorous markup." MarkVolundNYC 17:43, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
An e-mail with a "history lesson" on the origins of SGML and relation to similar tools of the period: http://people.opera.com/howcome/2006/phd/archive/lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xsl-fo/2002Oct/0076.html John Vandenberg 08:52, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
As Docbook is (rightly) mentioned, shouldn't DSSSL also be? (MonstaPro 15:41, 2 April 2007 (UTC))
- I think not, it's a LISP dialect making the same job as XSLT does. It's not SGML. Said: Rursus ☺ ★ 16:19, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Unclear: so does the GML of SGML stand for Goldfarb, Mosher and Lorie or Generalized Markup Language? If it is both that should be mentioned, if its the first it should be cited.
Wish: syntax
On the wish list: some more syntax samples, highlighting what looks like HTML and XML, and what's unlike them. Said: Rursus ☺ ★ 16:40, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
- I'm searching and searching, but to my dismay most links on SGML are dead, the people having SGML material believing there to be no need to keep maintaining it! Sigh!! Said: Rursus ☺ ★ 17:07, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
- Done, got it from DocBook references. Said: Rursus ☺ ★ 18:36, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Syntax section seemed incomprehensible
To me a language defines a set of documents that are allowable, as does a syntax. SGML is class of languages, right? so I take SGML and a DTD and get a markup language, right? Anyway if I got it completely wrong just destroy it please. But I did not like the way it was written. I would have to stretch my idea of a language too far, or I would feel too lost about what the DTD is doing. Thanks Wikivek 19:53, 30 July 2007 (UTC)