Re: YML - Why Markup Language...

gandalf@quarks.co.uk
Sun, 15 Mar 1998 18:50:26 +0000


all

+how would you design a machine-readable, machine-processible markup language if you knew nothing about SGML?

I would use a labelled tree structure allowing the browser to skip unwanted / unknown branches and be forward compatable. This is how the IFF format and MacIntosh data structures work.

http://home.quarks.co.uk/~gandalf/iff.txt

I will EMail you again.

Dean Swift, IOCCC Winner