SGML compliance and future directions.

[Casey Palowitch]

Casey Palowitch writes:
> I would like to see Omni go one further and put full SGML
> compliance within OmniWeb

William Shipley writes:
> I'm not sure what full SGML compliance means, to be honest.  It
> sounds like something I'd like to do, if I knew what it was.

	By full SGML-compliance, I mean the ability to parse, map  
to presentation values, and display files marked-up with any  
SGML-conformant DTD, not only the HTML or HTML+ DTD.
	
	To give you an idea of one developer's approach to the  
viewing of SGML documents of any DTD, take a look at the <A  
HREF="http://www.sq.com/panor-pr.html">Panorama</A> product of <A  
HREF="http://www.sq.com/">SoftQuad</A>, which will be bundled with  
NCSA Mosaic, Spyglass, et al.
	
	It would be a big win if this functionality was built-in  
from the start, rather than an add-on viewer.
	
	Regards,
	
*+*  Casey Palowitch, Electronic Text Librarian
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