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Re: Re: maps

• To: Bob Hutchison <hutch@x...>
• Subject: Re: Re: maps
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 10:07:53 -0600
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Bob Hutchison <hutch@x...> of "Tue, 06 Aug 2002 10:12:40 EDT." <B9755198.DCEE%hutch@x...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> >> So when do we stop relying on idiom and switch to markup?
> > 
> > It is a choice made every day by document designers.
> > What level of granularity to use. What are their expectations on
> > the libraries and parsing that will be available at the receiving end.
> 
> Unfortunately this leads to (at least) two things: the requirement of
> complex technologies to comprehend the text values; assumptions that data
> types correspond to text values.

I would re-write this as:

* The requirement of technology for parsing text

I guess "complex" is relative, and if by "comprehend" you mean some sort of AI 
thingie, I don't see why.  All it takes is parsing text.  People do this all 
the time in their sleep.  This is a requirement that doesn't bother me at all.

* The expression of rules to relate text to data types

This is exactly what I've been wanting, so again I don't see a down side.


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