There are two problems with viewing XML documents with SGML viewers:
1. XML requires a special SGML declaration. Not all SGML viewers support
alterntative SGML declarations (Panorama and all Synex Viewport-based
viewers do not, for example).
2. Unless an SGML viewer supports the WebSGML TC, it may not recognize a
well-formed XML document as also being an SGML document.
Because PIs in XML end with "?>" instead of the default ">" of SGML, the
XML declaration PI may be enough to cause some SGML viewers to reject the
document entirely.
Having said all this, I would be very supprised if there are any
actively-developed SGML viewers that don't support XML within the next 6 to
12 months. It's not like it's hard to do.
Cheers,
Eliot
-- <Address HyTime=bibloc> W. Eliot Kimber, Senior Consulting SGML Engineer Highland Consulting, a division of ISOGEN International Corp. 2200 N. Lamar St., Suite 230, Dallas, TX 95202. 214.953.0004 www.isogen.com </Address>xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)