Re: Lineage/heritage of XML datastores...

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:39:06 +0100
Message-ID: <459e1c77$0$335$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

BobTheDataBaseBoy wrote:
> ... not that I think they should even exist. Quite the opposite. But
> what prompts the question is: I recall threads here and there which say
> something like - XML is from SGML is from GML is from IBM & DEC 1960's
> data transfer facilities

I don't think they were intended as data storage or transfer tools; they were tools to make and maintain technical documents in a media-independent way.

> - but none have provided (that I can recall)
> names or even acronyms for these originating facilities.

Document Composition Facility.

> While surfing
> for the answer (without success), I thought that it certainly seems
> plausible that such a facility would exist in the IMS world, from the
> start. ???/IMS/XML, the family tree from pointer hell.
>

> Any other olde geezers out there, but who remember a name for these? Or
> know that it's truly a myth; S/GML is truly original?

I don't know.
STW I found this: http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/roots.htm Received on Fri Jan 05 2007 - 03:39:06 CST