Subject: Re: file format
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 12:32:51 CDT
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On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> sam said:
> >
> >Sorry. :-)
> >
> >The spec is 300 pages long. The DTD is in about a dozen files. The
> >amount of bloat in this spec is simply incredible. The RTF format spec is
> >only about 170 pages, by comparison.
> Oh, so it's kind-of like the DocBook format then :-) (see docbook.org to see
> exactly what I mean)
Oh, I know how big the docbook spec is. But the 300 page docbook book is
a manual and tutorial too, and it goes over everything from intro to
SGML/XML to how to program in DSSSL (in case you are insane). The OO spec
is *just* the spec. Granted, the docbook DTD is about 3 times the size,
but it really does have an excuse (it does lots more).
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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