Hi again,
On 2/9/2012 6:22 PM, Andrew Welch wrote:
Where do you use it Mr. Welch?
Various companies and sectors, including aerospace (BAE), health
(MDConsult), finance (JPMC, Interactive Data), publishing (Elsevier,
Macmillan), telecoms (Vodafone)... it's all pretty much the same work,
just the text nodes are different.
FWIW, these all fall into the category of "publishers" in a large sense,
since they are publishing even if only in support of other activities.
Keep in mind that two of the most important sectors supporting the
development of SGML in the 1980s and 1990s were military-industrial, and
academic computing (big research libraries and their ancillary
activities). What do these have in common? They both need their data to
outlive their machines, so they have to avoid proprietary lock-in either
to platforms or even (at the further edges) to sets of functional
requirements.
This is the conceptual foundation of layered systems based on
descriptive markup, aka (in its current form) XML/XSLT. For many kinds
of work the engineering expense is arguably not worth it (partly because
it requires a rare combination of skills to do well). Other kinds of
work are more or less impossible or unsustainable without it.
Cheers, Wendell
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