"James K. Lowden" <[email protected]> wrote: |On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 12:17:35 -0500 |Larry Kollar <[email protected]> wrote: |> IIRC, James Clark wrote the only open-source SGML parser around, and |> it didn?t support the full syntax. By contrast, there are XML parsers |> in just about every language out there including awk. | |AFAIK Clark's jade is the only free SGML parser. While it's true that |it leaves certain features unsupported, I never bumped into them while |writing the user guide for FreeTDS.
Writing a perl script that digs SGML is pretty easy, especially if its not for "production" industry use. |I suspect that SGML included minimization because it was at least |sometimes intended to be written by by hand. The unfulfilled hope of Yes, manual editing in your favourite text editor. At least a little bit of human notion in the tagsoup. I never understood XML and treated it as industry forum outcome that help some people to take a soapy bath on some stages, which is the real show babes, is it, and i think JSON/YAML is better if you cannot do it manually anyway, with CBOR being a nice binary notation. |XML was that tools would produce and use XML, and that we humans would |produce and use those tools. No. --steffen
