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Hi Patrick, > I don't recall ever calling a JITTs processor an XML processor. It > is a processor that can use XML markup to impose structure on data. > It could just as well use both the XML markup as well as Simon's > fragmentation or even true DATATAG as part of the processing of a > data set and still be a JITTs processor. It is that freedom that is > one of the differences from a LMNL processor, which appears to be > limited to LMNL syntax. (Correct me if I am wrong on that last > point.) You're wrong on that last point. A LMNL processor isn't actually defined anywhere, but I'd say that it was anything that generates a LMNL data model. There are no restrictions on what the *source* of that LMNL data model could be -- XML, LMNL, TexMECS, plain text, CVS files etc. etc. etc. The LMNL syntax is there as a *serialisation syntax* so that LMNL data models can be exchanged easily, because you can't represent overlapping ranges and structured annotations in XML without reifying, and reified structures are tedious to write and a whole lot larger than non-reified ones. But that definitely doesn't rule out using other syntaxes as the source of LMNL data models; in fact yesterday I wrote a SAX-to-SAL filter to make it easy for XML documents to be interpreted as LMNL data models (elements become ranges; attributes become annotations). > Ah, but the proper acronym is JITTs (note the little "s" on the > end). ;-) With that correction, obviously much cooler than LMNL! ;-) > (Although I must confess a weakness for the LMNL hat. Think we may > have found something for JITTs (the proper acronym) but checking on > permissions before posting.) The hat is *the* coolest thing about LMNL, in my opinion (and that's saying a lot, 'cos LMNL is *very* cool ;). All credit to Wendell Piez for it. Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/
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