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At 09:56 04/02/98 -0600, Glenn R. Kronschnabl wrote: >I want to use XML as a general input mechanism for scientific programs. In Great idea! XML revolutionises program input and output. FORTRAN programmers spend half their life with: Column 61 (I2) the number of optional cards describing the FOO. This is an optional branch of a tree. With TEI processing it's marvellous. I am trying to convert the molecular community to use XML as standard for input and output to *existing* programs. If you can achieve it in your community - great. >the old days, say in FORTRAN, one used to use namelist input. In C/C++, one >usually wrote a custom driver. I want to use XML because it appears to make >sense. I have started using SP - and want to build a tree that I can query >(kind of like an xrdb interface) for my input parameters. But, before I >embark on this, I was wondering if 1) this makes sense, 2) someone surely has >a simple tree builder/query interface to SP already that I can use so I don't >have to write my own (none jumped out at me when I looked around). I imagine the simplest way to do this is to write an XML2F77input processor. This is really a stylesheet application. If you wait for XSL I suspect it will solve many of your problems. If you can't wait, then there may be facilities in JUMBO that could be useful. P. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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