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Re: InkML

• To: "Bullard Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: Re: InkML
• From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:57:47 -0400
• Cc: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• Organization: Booz Allen Hamilton
• References: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE022DC817@h...>

Also reference the Open GIS Consortium [1].

"OGC is an international industry consortium of 258 companies,
government agencies and universities participating in a consensus
process to develop publicly available geoprocessing specifications."

Kind Regards,
Joe Chiusano
Booz | Allen | Hamilton

[1] http://www.opengis.org

"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote:
> 
> I'm talking about reuse of productions, in this
> case, coordinate systems.  You're talking about a
> style of markup.  One can use InkML as in the
> draft and still be XML.  You're quibbling about
> the detail of the markup (the depth of naming,
> thus, extractable categories).  At that point,
> our concerns converge.  For example:
> 
> I'd like to see coordinate schemas because GIS
> is the Swiss Army knife of information.  If you
> can map it, you can predict it more reliably.
> If you can integrate your maps to your other
> models, you have a very nice means to simulate.
> Simulation is the bigger toolkit.
> 
> GIS is, in a depressed market, is predicted to
> grow 8% this year.  That's a healthy ecology
> to be trading with.   Shared productions helps
> spread the wealth.
> 
> http://yahoo.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2003/tc20030819_8703_tc1
> 26.htm
> 
> len
> 
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...]
> 
> clbullar@i... (Bullard, Claude L (Len)) writes:
> >Still, it shouldn't be that hard to steal
> >elements and attributes from other languages
> >that use the same types of content.  XML
> >is there to make it easy to steal, and
> >the consortia RF-policies are there to make
> >it legal. Crikey, the SGMLers did it with
> >complete abandon.  They even wrote standards
> >based on it (GML begat 28001 and HTML; 28001
> >begat the Canadian 28001 and the European
> >modular DTDs).  Why shouldn't XML?  Isn't
> >that what namespaces do?
> 
> A long time ago I thought we were discussing the value or lack thereof
> of lists of numbers and letters like:
> 
> 1125 18432'23'43"7"-8 3-5+7  -3+6+2+6 8+3+6:T;+2+4:*T;+3+6+3-6:FF;
> 
> I'm not sure what you're talking about.
> 
> My point is that not using XML when you claim to be creating XML has
> real costs that demand examination of whether using XML in the first
> place is reasonable.  InkML appears to my eye to flunk this test with
> flying colors.
> 
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