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From: mss+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml
Subject: Re: yet another "standard" representation
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Date: 26 Sep 90 14:10:49 GMT
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Is your "quick scan" the article I posted or have you actually seen the
spec? I've learned to take trade articles w/ a grain of salt, and hence
don't try to read too much into them. However, to organize a whole
newspaper so that it can be moved from one page layout system to the
next, you need to capture the organization of articles, ads and so on,
in order to do proper page continuations, column flows, etc. Thus, they
very easily could have "high level" structures in them. (As a cynic, I
should also point out that SGML only defines structure, not high-level
or low-level structure. How you apply that structure is independent of
the standard, and hence the question remains whether SERIF defines
structure.)
		-Mark