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At 06:49 PM 1/27/99 -0600, len bullard wrote: ><aside>Has anyone created a list of the top characteristics of an >application make it most amenable to using markup? We've tossed >around parts of this on this list but I've not seen a thumbnail >version one could give to a manager that "they will understand".</aside> Since I've done this recently, here is why I did it. Ultraseek Server CCE uses XML in two different ways. The private format is to store the topic definitions and transmit them to other servers in a distributed search network. I used XML there because I didn't feel like wasting my time spec'ing a new format, then writing and maintaining a parser for it. With XML, I just needed to spec a DTD. A straight productivity win. The public use is to parse XML documents so they can be searched. Actually, I have a third use here in the lab, but not released -- delivering query results in XML. The justification is similar to the first one, that is, I don't feel like writing another file format and spec and forcing our users to write and maintain special-purpose parsers. Right now, the query results have an inline DTD, and even though that costs 1.5 kbytes per result, the files are still smaller than a corresponding HTML result. Note, this is with everything as elements -- no silly "abbreviated format" like RDF. wunder Walter R. Underwood wunder@i... wunder@b... (home) http://software.infoseek.com/ (my product) http://www.best.com/~wunder/ 1-408-543-6946 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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