[Xapian-discuss] Re: Xapian-discuss Digest, Vol 24, Issue 9

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:31:27PM +0200, Jean-Francois Dockes wrote:
> Yes, SGML slipped through. XML would be the one to use today. The
> documents would only differ in a few details anyway, it's mainly the
> tool sets which are different. It's all the same for authors.

There are several SGML features which XML doesn't support, so it's
possible for an author to write an SGML DocBook document which would be
significant effort to move to XML.

One example is that things like "<tag/foo/" isn't valid in XML (you
have to write "<tag>foo</tag>" instead.)

Cheers,
    Olly