Re: OT: XHTML

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 10:02:15PM -0800, Garth Wallace wrote:
> > I believe that SGML allows you to do just that, but it was never
> > implemented by HTML browsers and wasn't included in XML. While it would
> > make things simpler for a machine to parse, it'd be brutally hard to
> > hand-code without some assistance (like parenthesis-matching in emacs)
>
> Ahem.  "In emacs"?  Many, many text editors have that feature, including
> emacs' arch-rival vi. :) Not only that, but in the public domain program vim
> ("vi improved"), the rules used by the bounce-to-matching-parenthesis key ar
> completely customizable; <any-tag>...</> would be simple to add.
'Public domain'? How can it be public domain yet dual-licenced GPL and
charityware? Doesn't being GPL *require* it to have a copyright?

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Tristan

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