posted 19 years ago
XML is a subset of Standard General Markup Language (or something real close to that). SGML is a nasty thing, but I'd bet there are grammars and validators out there.
Roll your own could be fun. You can define grammars and make parsers to validate them. It's a whole other world when you get into that stuff ... I wouldn't try to become expert in it unless I thought there was a career waiting. Look at ANTLR for a start.
I'm curious why you're asking?
[ January 25, 2005: Message edited by: Stan James ]
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