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At 11:44 12/08/98 +0000, Chris Hubick wrote: [...] > On the more general note...is there a repository for general >domain nonspecific DTD's for stuff like times, dates, directory listings, >etc? It would be nice if we could have one place for all this, and >software for parsing and representing information stored in these formats. >I mean, as soon as I find myself creating declarations for stuff like >datetime I know someone else must have done it already, and probably have >a Java class which can load itself using SAX events. What are the large >companies such as Microsoft using for this in stuff like Office 2000? I completely agree with this - I make this sort of suggestion every two months or so on XML-DEV. The collection of additional libraries for XML (in common languages like Java, Perl, C(++)) would be of enormous value. Some should be directly related to XML functionality (e.g. isValidXMLName(String version)) while others would provide CDC-like support. As an example, isValidXMLName() is probably liftable from various parsers (I am sure it's well exposed in XML4J). It takes time, of course, and to do it as a virtual community would be an enormous challenge. A first step would be to identify that functionality where it already exists in publicly available software. And for authors to announce this availability when the announce software. P. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg 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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