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Re: Editor that is easy to use, generates XML under thehood, a

  • From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org>
  • To: Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org>
  • Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 18:30:24 +0300

Re:  Editor that is easy to use
hi Roger,

On Sat, 27 May 2023 15:33:22 +0000
Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> Okay, I convinced my sponsor that specifications should be written in a way
> that they can be processed by software. More specifically, I convinced my
> sponsor that, under the hood, specifications should be in an XML format. My
> sponsor said, "Okay, fine .... provided, (1) there is a non-geeky editor that
> is easy for the specification writer to use, (2) the specification writer is
> unaware that the editor is generating XML under the hood, and (3) the
> generated XML is easy to understand. One more thing, (4) the editor MUST
> support tables."
> 

this sounds like a spec for a herculean task for any team of software devs.

Not unlike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu  .

Also note https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks's_law and [[If a million
Shakespeares tried to write together, they would write like a monkey.]]

https://twitter.com/shlomif/status/1642738885422723073


> Peter Flynn wrote:
> 
> > That is a sort of holy grail: that users will be able to create and 
> > maintain their document in meaningful XML without knowing 
> > they are doing it.  
> 
> Eek!
> 
> Did I mislead my sponsor by recommending that specifications be written in a
> way that can be processed by software? 
> 
> /Roger
> 
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