SGML vs XML

[Trent Shipley]

I have decided that my dissertation has outgrown WordPerfect and EndNote,
but especially WordPerfect.  It looks like XML + XSL will work pretty well.
However, for future compatibility it would be nice to markup the document
with Human Relations Area File codes (HRAF codes).  The problem is that text
referenced by HRAF codes might not nest.

Note that a single code should never overlap itself.  It is as if there were
N codes and the document was scanned for the applicability of each code,
effectively resulting in N documents.  However, some of those N codes will
not apply anywhere in the document.  In effect some subset m of the N
documents consists of NULL documents.  Then all the interesting N-m
documents are projected into a single document.

The markup could looks something like this:

<HRAF code="1">The Raboof blah blah blah blah yadda yadda. <HRAF code="2">
Their women blah yadda blah blah.</HRAF code="1">  Meanwhile the children
blah.<HRAF code="2">

Can SGML handle non-nested markup tags?

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