Triumph of Simplicity: James Clark on Markup Languages and XML

Dr Dobbs: Triumph of Simplicity: James Clark on Markup Languages and XML.
“If you peek under the hood of high-profile open-source projects such as Mozilla, Apache, Perl, and Python, you’ll find a little program called “expat” handling the XML parsing. If you’ve ever used the man command on your GNU/Linux distribution, then you’ve also used groff, the GNU version of the UNIX text formatting application, troff. If you’ve ever done any work with SGML, from generating documentation from DocBook to building your own SGML applications, you’ve undoubtedly come across sgmls, SP, and Jade.” [ZopeNewbies]

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