On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:11:05AM +0100, Neill Newman wrote:
hhmmm at the point of starting a flame I'd like to say that xml is very good at what it does, removes content from markup, html is contant and markup munged together, not nice!! html is ok for small/medium sites, but any decent large scale dynamic stuff is all xml with xslt->html translators, believe me, xml is worth the effort...
I have seen a couple of presentations that compare XML with HTML and emphasise that XML is concerned with contents and HTML with presentation. What I have more trouble understanding is how XML differs from SGML.
SGML appears already to be extensible - you define as many or as few tags as you like, and how they are allowed to be combined, using a DTD. An SGML processor can convert a document into a presentable form using a stylesheet that maps tags into presentation actions or properties.
Could someone enlighten me?
Steve.