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Re: Library Standards and URIs

Terry Allen <terry@ora.com> Thu, 29 December 1994 23:39 UTC

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From: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 14:21:51 PST
In-Reply-To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> "Re: Library Standards and URIs" (Dec 29, 12:38pm)
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Larry writes:
>Just as HTML doesn't require all browsers to implement all of SGML,
but allows SGML-based tools to be used on HTML documents, we could use
SGML syntax, but require that a 'URC' be in some canonical form, to
facilitate easier handling by simpler tools.

I say again, this won't work if the "canonical form" cannot be 
expressed in a DTD and SGML declaration.  "Using SGML syntax" means just 
that, or it doesn't mean very much at all.  Michael
Sperberg-McQueen has outlined the desirable SGML toggles for
achieving simplicity:

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Autools/sperberg-mcqueen/sperberg.html

I strongly recommend it.

Regards,

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