[vorbis-dev] Re: [vorbis] Request for Standardization: classical music TAGS

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Jonathan Walther wrote:

> If you're going to use XML anyway, why not straight SGML?
> XML at this stage is as bloated, and far less coherent
> the SGML.
>
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > On UNIX, I would recommend libxml - you can find it on freshmeat.net I
> > use programs from the libxml and libxslt packages to validate and
> > transform XML on its way to HTML and both are pretty good, no problems
> > so far.

Wha? Why do you say that XML is less coherent? I've used both SGML and XML,
and I'd rather use XML any day. SGML has all sorts of exceptions to the rule
that you'd rather not deal with.


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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio at openservices.net>

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