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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 > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ Interview with Ben Collins-Sussman - https://shlom.in/sussman XSLT isn't like violence. XSLT is violence - there is no such thing as using it too little. — https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/XSLT/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply .
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