There are a number of compelling reasons to maintain these pages in
XML rather than HTML.
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Traditional printed documents are desirable for several of these pages.
Using a more structurally rich format to represent the documents makes
it possible to produce print as well as online versions.
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All of the intra-document linking is automatic.
The SGML system provides validation for the inra-document links, so
there is no danger of broken links. (Links to external pages still have to
be validated by an external program.)
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Migrating these pages to XML and/or future versions of HTML
will only require a new or updated style sheet. No pages will have to be recoded.
And the pages will conform to whatever output format is required, with no
possibility of random human error.
