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RE: InkML

• To: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: InkML
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:22:57 -0400
• In-reply-to: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE022DC80E@h...>

clbullar@i... (Bullard, Claude L (Len)) writes:
>Perhaps, but it seems that we as XML application language 
>designers and members of working groups should take on 
>the challenge to reuse as much pre-existing productions 
>as make sense to the particular language. 

If it's a wrapper format, fine.  Call it a wrapper format.  Don't sell
it as a new XML format.

This spec appears to be creating a whole new set of semi-random numbers
and letters, and calling it XML.

>Lists of numbers are common, BTW.  X3D has them too. 
>But when SVG and X3D finally do merge in a meaningful 
>fashion, it will be painful to work in namespaces where 
>each one has a different way to specify coordinates.

Even for people merely converting from one to another, never mind grand
unification, this creates huge problems.  SVG does get criticized on a
semi-regular basis for this.  Dunno about X3D, but it'd be a huge black
mark for me.  Maybe they don't care - "it's just a delivery format" -
but I spend too much time extracting information from delivery formats
to take that claim seriously.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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Errors, errors, all fall down!
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