[tei-council] rooting out some mentions of SGML in the Guidelines

[James Cummings]

On 15/07/12 18:17, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> On 15 Jul 2012, at 18:14, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>> There are a number of instances in the TEI Guidelines of "SGML or XML".
>>   Is it safe to drop the reference to SGML in cases where current
>> practice, and not history, is being discussed?  The Guidelines, after
>> all, switched to XML syntax with P5, so I can't see any reason to keep
>> these.
>> Also okay to change examples where the value of ref at target contains
>> ".sgm" to ".xml"?
> +1 from me.

Likewise from me. Anywhere where the theory of markup languages 
and/or their history is not being discussed, then mention of SGML 
and in my opinion DTDs should be slowly removed.  ;-)

-James
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Dr James Cummings, InfoDev
Oxford University Computing Services
University of Oxford