Re(2): HTML Documents (SGML text)

James D Mason (MASONJD@oax.a1.ornl.gov)
Mon, 15 May 95 12:12:47 EDT

This is really off the subject of html-wg, but I'll have to say that most of
the SGML group agrees with you to some degree. We've been arguing for
distributed texts for years, but ISO seems immovable. In fact, they've
recently been pushing further restrictions on electronic distribution of
standards even within their committees. IMHO, it's silly, but there's not much
I can do about it.

The other issue is that although the original SGML standard was produced from
an SGML file (the first ISO standard to be done that way), it was a
special-purpose file, and it hasn't been avaialble since back then in 1986. A
lot has changed in the SGML world since then. Exoterica's hypertext version
was produced by creating and tagging an entirely new file.

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