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Re: Multiple FAQ's (was CFD: lugnet.market.shipping)
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Date: 
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 04:15:00 GMT
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Gary Louie <GaryLouie@EarthLink.Net> writes:

> jasper@janssen.dynip.com (Jasper Janssen) recently wrote to Lugnet:
> 
> > How about Sgml instead of comma-delimited? Then we can say it's
> > industry-standard :)
> 
> Uh, what's "Sgml"?
> 
> > Jasper, who doesn't _really_ know what the hell he's talking about,
> > but is interested just the same.
> 
> Me too!


SGML stands for "Standard Generalized Markup Language" and is sort of the
parent language to HTML (SGML is really a meta-language).

XML stands for "Extensible Markup Language" and is a modern spin-off of SGML
with strong emerging Java and Perl support (as well as other popular
languages).

For more background:

   http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/xml.html
   http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=SGML
   http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=XML

--Todd



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  Re: Multiple FAQ's (was CFD: lugnet.market.shipping)
 
Todd Lehman wrote in message <369d6ded.14687576@l...et.com>... (...) SGML (...) How about English ? :) SteveScott (28 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.faq)

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  Re: Multiple FAQ's (was CFD: lugnet.market.shipping)
 
jasper@janssen.dynip.com (Jasper Janssen) recently wrote to Lugnet: (...) Uh, what's "Sgml"? (...) Me too! Gary GaryLouie@EarthLink.Net (28 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.faq)

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