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[undinesprite]

I'm taking an online course which involves digesting things such as the following:

All SGML applications contain an SGML declaration that describes the characters and delimiters that appear in the application. they also contain a DTD that includes the syntax of the markup constructs used in the application. Additional definitions such as character

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[debmats]

I just read almost the same thing while I was reviewing some xml stuff. *G*

DEFINITELY BORING!!!!

[undinesprite]

A coworker is taking the same course and we're agreed that it's an insomnia cure. Zowie.

[tiggrmish]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

huh what I'm awake

what was the question?

[undinesprite]

Yeah, it's fairly deadly. Not even caffeine is helping.

[wwilliam47]

I'm not sure whether english description of formal grammars or the actual BNF for those grammars is more mind-numbing.

And if you think those are boring to *read*, imagine how boring they are to *write* and edit for correctness and coherence...

[undinesprite]

I'm trembling just imagining the pain of having to write something like that.

[kenllama]

DTDs are actually way cool, but that doesn't keep them from being boring too...

[sps]

Yes?

Though goodness knows I'd have more respect for Tim Berners-Lee if he'd waded through it before perpetrating html. Or maybe not. SGML was not a sensible thing to copy well, any more than it was a sensible thing to copy badly. And his entire web thing is less cool than lemur poo.

Ooh, I'm Mr. Grumpy today!

[sps]

Ooh, ooh, what about this?