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Sean McGrath wrote: > The problem from an engineering > viewpoint is that we have no way > of expressing the syntactic assumptions > if the Fgrep programs for > those who will work with these systems > in the future. > > Murphys law dictates that sooner or > later a perfectly sound XML document > will come along that blows my > Fgrep out of the water. >From where? As I say, they are generated by a well-known program. From an engineering viewpoint, I would say that it is a requirement on this program not merely that it generate WFXML, but that it do so in a certain style. > I floated the idea of > XFM (XML Features Manifest) late last year > as a declarative way for creators of > XML content to formally specify what syntactic > constructs their content uses. i.e. external > entity references, internal document type > declaration subsets, marked sections and > so on. But unless it were insanely extensible it would hardly document my specific requirements about whitespace usage. > In the mean time, I do not use FGrep > the way you use it. I first generate > an XML incarnation of ESIS I have dubbed > PYX using the xmln utility. This way, > I can be sure that I am grepping true > PCDATA, true element type names etc. Plausible, but in my case unnecessary. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@r...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer) *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/threads.html ***************************************************************************
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