Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] strange DTD changes

[Martijn v. B. <ma...@ee...>]

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:38:01PM -0500, Dan Mueth wrote:
> Well, the spec should be the reference, not any particular implementation 
> of the spec.

From what I've seen on the mailing-list neither the spec nor any
implementation was set in stone.

> In the case of <person>, the conversion from <person> to RFC822 is simple.  
> The reverse is not always possible, which is unfortunate.  It would be
> nice if you could convert an OMF database from one format to another
> without problems or loss.

But *why* would you want to do that? If you think of the spec as the
final word on the syntax, then you cannot have <person> & friends. And
if you have <person>, you really have no use for a dumbed down
representation of the data.


(maybe we should try to get the original OMF people involved into this)


Martijn