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At 11:52 09/08/98 +0100, Dan Brickley wrote: >On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: >[...] >> - CORBA/Java. This is attractive for communities with well-established [...] > >Yes, though it's easy to set up a false opposition here: using CORBA to >interface with remote XML or RDF data stores is an attractive proposition. >The DOM comes to mind, as do various proposals for markup based IDLs. Indeed. And I think that - at present - CORBA is a good solution for data-based domains. XML will have to work hard in public to support data. I am frustrated by the slow progress with XML-data - until XML can define data primitives the data community won't take XML seriously. > > >> Moreover very few people would happily author a document using CORBA-based >> tools. > >I think I disagree here, but maybe am not sure what you mean. Could you >expand on this? Would they be unhappy because CORBA-based interfaces are I meant it will be some time before the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemical Communications (a primary journal) accepts a submission as a set of CORBA objects. OTOH HenryR and I have gone a long way towards persuading them that an XML document will be the preferred means of submission in the near future, including data, molecules, links, etc. [...] > >[1] does neglecting a Phd in favour of web hackery count as academic? ;-) Depends how the web hackery turns out... you can do both if you neglect sleep. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg 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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