> Huh? I don't think most or any of wiki dialects could
> be described by SGML, so how would xml adoption reduce
> SGML adoption for wikis? Or do you think wikis could
> perhaps have developed to use the angle brackets
> instead of currently used short-hand notations (yes,
> some ugly wikis use tags, for apparently no good
> reason, along with non-tag markup -- if you want
> cheap-o tags, just use HTML)?

Unlike XML, SGML's concrete syntax isn't fixed, it isn't restricted to
using <..> syntax for tags, or even any (explict) tags at all.

I just asked google to turn up a link to sgml short ref maps and it
gave me the article that Rick was talking about..

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/03/03/sgmlwiki.html

David


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