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juanrgonzaleza@c... said: > >> peter murray-rust wrote: >> > >> A key >> approach is that data and text are mixed ("datument") so that we can >> transmit data in primary publications. Machines can now start to >> understand scientific publications. > > I would say "to analize". LOL, so would I! :-) >> This is sufficiently broad that it is impossible to create a >> traditional XSD schema which allows for all uses. > > Such as I see the problems are being complexity and flexibility. I think > that the whole XML approach was not really designed for dealing with > complex applications in a flexible way. Yes, XML was not designed with particular applications in mind. In fact, it was designed bottom-up. > If reusing of code is one of priorities, and extensibility, power for > manipulation of simbolic structures and modularization are also why do not > use a specialized simbolic language as Lisp or Scheme? Because XML parsers are available in every language built-in, while LISP and scheme parser are not ubiquitous, have less good internationalization, encourage rather than discourage the addition of processing, and does not have validation languages. > Yeah, XSD was mainly designed with a bussiness application in mind. > Precisely main strengh of Lisp-like approaches has been its unusual > easiness for adaptation to evolution. The main reason Lisp is so popular > in academic circles and IA research is that code evolutionate with > evolution of the discipline. At least that is my opinion. > > I see extremadly difficult that a XML environment (such as is being > designed today) can offer that kind of stuff needed in science. XML comes > from the SGML world of design-once-for-a-fixed-big-bussines. This is high-order analizing. Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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