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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] XML as a basis for interoperabilty (WAS: Re: Gutenberg Project <longish>
 Ann Navarro wrote: > > XML does not have to use a single blessed DTD to be interoperable, as seems > to be the claims of several here. Insofar as one doesn't need validation, fixed attribute defaults, etc., and only requires a well-defined syntax for a file, this is true. Curly brackets killed round brackets and now pointy brackets are ready to work on curly. XML 1.0 makes a nice portable format. Interoperation is a bigger problem and that is what others are saying. XML like some dotcoms out there, is a bit overvalued. This isn't to say it isn't valuable, only that it is only valuble AS-applied. We are having a devil of a time in X3D making it more valuable with DOM, CSS etc. because we need a high performance framework, and unfortunately so far, that means a monolith design. Certainly, it is page integratable just as any object is, but to provide say, XML Namespace interoperation and integration, we would have to accept reduced performance and substantial bloat. Please, someone prove that wrong. I'd love to see it, but as far as one can tell, SVG-like integration isn't in the cards. Still, TEI is a good place to start for Gutenberg. Carving up a DTD isn't that hard. I guess if one originally got used to 28001, 87269, DocBook etc., it all looks cherry. Thank God the FOSI died along the way. :-) len *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ *************************************************************************** 
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