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At 11:43 06/10/98 -0400, Tyler Baker wrote: >John Cowan wrote: > >> I think that to avoid massive confusion this list needs to drop >> "SOX" immediately and adopt another name, given the appearance of a >> W3C note called "SOX" (yet another XML schema language). > >How about SEX (Simple Element-Oriented XML). At least it would get the attention >of the developer community and probably every cultural commentator as well (-: Element-Oriented XML is a pleonasm; I'm not sure what XML without elements would look like :-). I used the term "Element-Oriented Computing" (or Processing) as an analogy with OOP. The point is that the programming is mapped onto the elements and for each element there is an (objected-oriented) chunk of code. An alternative is Element-Object mapping. I don't claim originality, but it has been a central theme of the way I have been programming since I started SGML about 4 years ago (with costwish). It needs a term to describe it as I think it's different from stylesheet-based programming (DSSSL gurus will probably contest this). > >Seriously, do we really need the S for simple? I mean SAX is simple in how it >presents parsed XML data to the application, but working with it is not quite as >simple as it is a relatively low-level interface. Well, *I* can use SAX and that sets an upper limit on complexity :-). More seriously I think it will be extremely important in this discussion to keep things as simple as possible. I certainly don't understand everything that has been written on S*X in the last week or so; this is a useful touchstone for an upper limit. > >Another question is do we really need an anacronymn. Programmers have this >tendency to describe everything in terms of anacronyms, many of which don't make >sense as they simply try and satisfy the requirement that an anacronymn be able >to be pronounced in speech. > >Hey I am at a loss of words at the moment for a good name of what was tentatively >called SOX so maybe we should have a contest for the best name here and vote on >it. I agree (thanks to MurrayM for his mail). It is useful to have a handle for this concept. Acronyms (sic) are useful. By analogy with XSchema, I'll kick off with XObject (XML-Objects). I bet it's not novel by now. P. 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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