Re: SPEC/PHIL: VRML as an SGML instantiation

Paul Burchard ([email protected])
Mon, 10 Apr 95 13:25:23 -0600

[email protected] (Steffen Meschkat) writes:
> Just an interesting observation: as was pointed out a few
> messages sooner (I forgot by whom), SGML (at least, good
> SGML) *is* hierarchically structured, just as VRML,
> that is why VRML syntax should be isomorphically
> expressable in a SGML DTD.
>
> Funny? Was I clear at this...? Any inspiration to draw
> from this?

Yes. What this means is that interactivity can be added to both
HTML and VRML in a uniform way -- through a generic object interface
for hierarchical hyperlinked document formats. (Of course, more
specialized interfaces would be derived from these, to allow
manipulation of dimensionality-specific document structure.)

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