On 5 Oct 2001, at 16:06, Carol Spears wrote: > Okay, everything I know about XML I learned by osmosis (ie, i slept > with XML in a Nutshell under my pillow), but XML seems to make sense > and be a lot less rigid than SGML. To the contrary, XML is way more rigid than SGML, that is its defining quality. XML = rigid(SGML). What they did was throw out a whole bunch of features that not many people were using, then tighten the rules. -- branko collin collin@xxxxxxxxx