Re: request for XML resources
> > > More seriously, there is not yet any XML+XSL browser which anyone reasonable
> > > find ready.
>
> Really? I find that hard to believe, although I've not found much yet
> either. I can't imagine that a modified web browser that displays pages
> using XML, DTD, and XSL files doesn't exist.
Keep in mind that a significant portion of XML technology hasn't much to
do with text processing but with databases and application development.
In fact it's my impression that's where the bulk of the interest lies,
which was (and is still) not the case with SGML. SGML was always been
largely applied to text processing.
> > I think it's fair to say that all of the James Clark software is
> > widely-used and popular. It's one of the most interesting phenomena of
> > the SGML/XML industry.
>
> How is this interesting? Is it Bad? Good? Is there anything I should know
> before using it?
It's interesting (to me, anyway) in that James Clark is (from what I
hear) independently wealthy, yet contributes this fully-functional
software that's not only popular among the user community, but is
commonly used as a base component of many commercial products as well.
It's a sort of open source success story. I'm sure he must be quite a
guy.
> > > Nobody uses it in the real world :-)
>
> With all the XML hype I've heard on the net and in the IT and business
> publications, I'd at least expect that SOMEONE is using it in the real
> world. Right?
I think Stephane was being funny. Check out www.oasis-open.org,
http://www.infotek.no/sgmltool/, the latter being one of my favorites.
c
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