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   From: peter@silmaril.ie   
      
   On 04/03/2025 23:32, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
    > On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 22:32:26 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:   
    >   
    >> There are two routes to PDF if you have XML documents (increasingly   
    >> common; and both Word and Libre Office are XML inside). Both use   
    >> Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) but in different ways   
    >   
    > Does anybody still use SGML? Remember, that gave birth to HTML.   
      
   And TEI. And DocBook. And XML. And dozens of industrial vocabularies.   
      
   I believe a very small number of projects still use SGML for specialist   
   technical reasons, or possibly tied to obsolete software. Projects I was   
   associated with moved to XML the moment viable processing software   
   became available. But SGML still works, and so does the old software.   
      
   Peter   
      
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