🚀 go-pugleaf

Seems to me that a lot of verbage has been expended on something so trivial.
SGML is not the end-all on document interchange.  A DTD describes the content
of a document but does NOT describe how an application should deal with the
content.

Guess what, ANSI C doesn't either.  A compiler should compile valid ANSI C,
but the good ones complain about unreachable code.  A source code analyzer
will tell you bad things but won't run your program.  A source code management
system will do other things.

Also, RE: interchangeability, ever ported a C program?  Compatibility, NOT!

An SGML document is in the eye of the beholder (or application).  SGML affords
an expected input for printing, editting, searching, ... whatever the app wants
to do.

I do hope that this group "lightens up" to a certain extent.  SGML is YAS
(yet another standard) that I know some of you have put blood/sweat/tears
in.  But it is still a YAS, a good one at that.

Speaking of YAS, I will be attending the IEEE WG on SFQL, a query language
that has a deep SGML roots.  Dates are 18-19 August.  Anyonelse going?
Love to continue the arguments over a brew.  Also willing to EMAIL/post
my observations if anyone cares.

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