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Re: bioinformatics, XML

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: bioinformatics, XML
• From: Christian Nentwich <c.nentwich@c...>
• Date: 01 Feb 2002 11:52:40 +0000
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <4.2.0.58.20020131203805.01f93c50@p...>
• References: <4.2.0.58.20020131203805.01f93c50@p...>

> data sets are already huge) and that most often the schemas are poorly 
> designed and tools poorly implemented. When schemas and tools are designed 
> and implemented well, he approves.
> That last bit doesn't seem too surprising.

Not at all, and in fact it seems a bit odd to blame XML.. We are
currently working on checking the consistency of bioinformatics data,
and I can testify that the schema design is pretty dreadful (the data is
mostly converted ad hoc from relational data as I understand it)

We've basically got files full of CDATA sections that aren't marked up
at all, but still contain structured information (CSV *inside* XML! argh
:) 

Christian Nentwich

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