[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

RE: Caught napping!

• To: 'Tim Bray' <tbray@t...>, XML DEV <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Caught napping!
• From: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:01:56 -0800

So, what are you saying here, Tim? That we don't need interoperable data
structures and APIs? Or that the effort is futile and we should just give
up?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:13 AM
> To: XML DEV
> Subject: Re:  Caught napping!
> 
> 
> At 10:07 PM 12/11/01 -0800, Ronald Bourret wrote:
> >Out of curiousity, how many people think of XML in text 
> terms, not model
> >terms? My guess is that even proponents of well-formed XML eventually
> >fall into the model camp, but I'm not sure.
> 
> As I've said before, 
> 
> 1. the only normative definitions of XML, and of Namespaces,
>    operate almost completely at a syntactic level.  
> 2. I've been in software for 20 years and I've seen lots
>    of interoperable cross-platform syntax and very rarely
>    an interoperable cross-platform data structure or API.
> 
> Obviously, once you're dealing with some XML inside of
> a program, you think in terms of the structure.  But XML's
> interoperability is strongly linked to the fact that 
> its definition is syntactic.  -Tim
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an
> initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org>
> 
> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/
> 
> To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription
> manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
> 

• Prev by Date: Re: XMLDecl version
• Next by Date: Re: So maybe ID isn't a problem after all.
• Previous by thread: Re: Caught napping!
• Next by thread: RE: Caught napping!
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread