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On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 14:27, Norman Walsh wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > / Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...> was heard to say: > |> Well, as long as it's in XML anyway. Not if it's in some other text-based > |> syntax. > | > | Not only. I would say as long as it's tree based and that a parser can > | be writen to expose it as XML. That extends the scope a lot! > > Yes, naturally. I didn't mean literally placed on the relevant storage > medium using pointy brackets. But this also embraces many text based formats (such as for instance WikiML [1], CVS [2], the RSS text format [3] that I have proposed a while ago and even the compact syntax for Relax NG). For specific usages like these, there is no need to put the burden of the syntax of a generic and highly extensible markup language on the shoulders of the authors, at least when a mapping can be defined. [1] http://wikiml.org/ [2] http://4xt.org/downloads/examples/csv/ [3] http://4xt.org/downloads/rss/example1.txt Eric -- Did you know it? Python has now a Relax NG (partial) implementation. http://advogato.org/proj/xvif/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com (W3C) XML Schema ISBN:0-596-00252-1 http://oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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