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Don't forget the DTD - the key difference between SGML/XML and other interchange formats IMHO. The DTD is at once rough sketch. formal blue-print, test-bed and QA check for perhaps gigabytes of data. >For data with a long expected >life-time, XML may actually be a better choice than comma/tab delimited >file _because_ it is so verbose. If the original architects choose tag >names which are clear, then when someone approaches the data 10 years >later, and the original authors are long gone, the chance of this new-comer >understanding the data format increases significantly. This is what Steven >Newcomb calls self-descriptive documents. (Steven/Peter, did I get that >right?) > Sean Mc Grath sean@d... Digitome Electronic Publishing http://www.digitome.com 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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