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In article <1993Jan12.150838.22518@gmd.de> thomas@gmd.de writes:
>In article 28407@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com, lange@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Alex Lange) writes:
>> 
>> As for "native SGML support," I realized that was an untruth when I was
>> told that documents are stored in Frame's binary format.
>
>Although I too would prefer that SGML editors store documents in SGML,
>rather than some binary format, this is not uncommon.  Well, at least
>SoftQuad's Author/Editor product also does this.    I don't think this
>should be one of the required features for a "fully conform" SGML editor.

I do.  The entire point of SGML is to provide generalized
application-level access to a document's contents.  This can only be
done if the documents are stored in marked-up ASCII form.  Any binary
format will by nature be propietary to some degree.  This will prevent
other applications from importing or operating on that text (important
keyword that).  While I might go so far as to say that one could
"precompile" or store style catalogs in a binary format, that's as far
as the SGML concept can be stretched without breaking.

-r