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It is relevant in that it identifies standards and basic xml Every application has a data structure, take word for example, a document is a data structure which is parsed and diaplayed onto the screen. When a word document is saved to the disk it is serialised and saved as a word document, this is a data structure representing the in memory datastructure of the application, only it can be distributed as a file. This is exactly what XML does, parsing XML builds a DOM (sax for bits) and the DOM is travsesed as in HTML and displayed as a web page. If this is not what XML is for, then what the hell do we do with it, do we fiddle with ourselves???? After pagemaker has built a web page the internal datastructure is saved as html, I can not see where my nerve is???? OK What is a relational table? is it not a datastructure? What is a web page, is it not a data structure which is traversed and displayed to a screen window? A Datastructure is structured data that algorthhms modify datastructures + algorithms = programs (yes programs may have more data than just the XML stuf) So what's the problem with what I have said - or have people just forgotton what they were doing when they developed the XML specifications???? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Gushee" <mgushee@h...> To: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:50 AM Subject: Re: What is XML For? > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:33:48AM +1000, Trevor Croll wrote: > > XMl is a way for applications to exchange datastructures, it is this > > simple. > > Gotta give you points for nerve, if nothing else. You do realize, don't > you, that several of the people in this debate were involved in creating > XML in the first place? > > > see http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/tcroll/webdesign/index.htm > > Okay, I've seen it. How is it supposed to be relevant? > > -- > Matt Gushee When a nation follows the Way, > Englewood, Colorado, USA Horses bear manure through > mgushee@h... its fields; > http://www.havenrock.com/ When a nation ignores the Way, > Horses bear soldiers through > its streets. > > --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.) > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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> > > >
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