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Advantages of generic SGML
- Based on international standards -- no vendor wars
- Fully extensible -- no tag limitations
- Supports formal validation and controlled authoring
- Highly structured -- can model any kind of data
- Links and navigational aids can be generated directly from the
structure of documents
- Context searching increases the speed of user access 10-20 times
- Documents can easily be reused for different purposes
- All versions of a document (printed and online) can be generated
from the same source
- User-selectable stylesheets allow dynamically configurable views
- System administration of large document repositories is vastly
simplified