Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 17:40:50 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: jfieber@indiana.edu, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is Thot (WYSIWIG editor) for you? Message-ID: <199705150040.RAA13777@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199705142238.PAA21497@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at May 14, 97 03:38:44 pm
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> Whats the fundamental difference between an HTML editor and a SGML editor? > > It looks to me that HTML is a subset of SGML so by way of handling tags > and structure it looks like a good WYISWYG editor can be accomplished > unless of course SGML brings in complexity such that it breaks the > algorithms to handle the HTML visualization/edit . HTML is a DT defined by an SGML DTD. Once again, in English: Hypertext Markup Language is a Document Type defined by a Simple Graphic Markup Language Document Type Description That is, a general SGML editor can edit any document format for which it has a DTD. You could define a DTD for RTF, and edit RTF files. You could define a DTD for WordPerfect files, and edit WordPerfect files. You could define a DTD for Word for Windows (if you could puzzle out the file format), and edit MS Word files. This is the beauty (and complexity) of a working SGML editor. SGML is a definition language for specification of page definition languages. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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