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[Sean Mc Grath] Thu, 2 Apr 1998 12:06:24 +0100 General discussion of Extensible Markup Language <XML-L@L...> >>Binary formats and APIs *constrain* the uses to which data can be put. They make information >>"application owned" rather that "creator owned". >>Binary formats are hunky dory for internal application use and I am all for it as long as the >>application provides a XML data representation that I can get at. Once I have this I *know* that >>I am not constrained by any vendor in terms of what I can do with my data. >>With XML I know that I can rapidly develop applications without dusting off yet another badly >>documented, buggy API and spending weeks just getting my head around the data structures. >>XML raises the base level of data interchange above plain text by allowing markup intermingled >>with the text to describe complex structures. ALLELUIA! This is exactly what XML compliance should mean. Application vendors claiming XML compliance should be obliged to provide import from/export to functions and to provide (or even better, to generate ad hoc) an accurate DTD describing the schema. Binary file developers would provide utilities to do the same thing. Does anyone suppose that this is what Microsoft means by its 'commitment' to XML? 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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