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Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > I am happier with yours :-) [You seem to have newlines in some tags and not > others, is this intended?] Actually, that was just a typo. The idea should be one "concept" per line. Even attributes might go on separate lines. But you've reminded me that my normalization adds whitespace, which in XML is equivalent to adding content. Perhaps tags *would* have to be broken across lines. > The only reason - and it's probably not "good" - is that the effort to > create or install a solution is too great for the problem at hand. And it > costs money and time. That makes sense. Sometimes XML is too expensive altogether. I think that we are coming to agree that if you invent something that looks like XML, but is simpler, you should just not call it XML. Call it XML-like. > Yes - I like this. Is your use of 'xmlnorm' fictitious, or is such a beast > emerging from the current tools. I wasn't thinking about any particular software when I wrote it, but it was so easy to develop that I guessed it existed somewhere. Check the message from Alex Milowski in comp.text.sgml that describes how he converts SGML to XML. Also Jade can easily be tricked into converting arbitrary SGML (and thus XML) into a standardized XML format. I'll bet it would only be a few hours work to get Jumbo to do the same. Paul Prescod -- "You have the wrong number." "Eh? Isn't that the Odeon?" "No, this is the Great Theater of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Good-night." -- Robertson Davies, "The Cunning Man" xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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