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Peter, On the subject of tools proving the XML concept, you may be interested (assuming you don't already know...) that the recently released Early Access Release 2 of Javasoft's JavaHelp API is based firmly upon (DTD-less) XML docs. For what it's worth, I'm very optimistic about the future of XMl. I'm involved in creating a Java product which uses XML as its data storage/interchange "format", and we have a fairly pragmatic approach - keep a good eye on emerging ideas/specs/standards, whilst building applications based on either DTD-less or single-DTD documents. I suspect that many of the next wave of XML-enabled applications will be similarly focussed. After that - well, we'll see... So, from the sidelines - we wish you well. Anthony Scott-Hodgetts At 10:56 19/08/98, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: >[...] >I have great sympathy with this. There is no doubt that multiple >independent variant semi-conforming parallel semi-implementations of all >these specs would kill XML. In practice I think we have to: > - have implementations of XML that are either FEW or completely >interchangeable. The latter is critically dependent on public activity and >involves APIs, freeware, portable s/w (i.e. not platform-specific), >examples and tutorials. > - develop in a modular fashion, use layering, develop APIs. > - do nothing that isn't necessary. > - get some simple tools out to prove the XML concept. Editing and browsing >are clearly key. >{...} 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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