Aug. 27, 1999
11:24 p.m.
[Paul writes]
I favor a well-defined subset of SGML using basically the XML features plus end-tag minimization. That can massively cut down on the annoyance factor.
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I think that trying to stick carefully to DocBook is probably too much work. We should design a Python-ic variant -- just like we do with APIs.
This seems to be converging on agreement. Fred - what is the next step - assuming Paul's statement (or a slight refinement thereof) is accepted, how do we move forward? How do we design the DTD? Does anyone have enough experience with this stuff that they could make a first pass? Mark.