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At 11:09 AM 12/10/99 -0500, Larry Watanabe wrote: > >If a log file can't easily be represented as a well-formed XML document, >then that does indicate a problem with the spec. Well, time series data (a logfile) isn't normalizable in the relational model, so there's a problem with the SQL spec, too. And I'm having a lot of trouble accessing my meatloaf with my SCSI bus, so let's fix that while we're at it. Seriously, I think it is good that XML documents have a definate end. But the logfile problem can be solved in two (near-)standard ways. 1) Treat the logfile as an XML Fragment (see proposal at W3C). An XML Fragment needs to be "well-balanced", but doesn't have to have a single root element. 2) Treat the logfile as a series of XML documents, each of which is a log record. They could be separated by formfeed (a character illegal inside an XML document). Since the the XML declaration is technically optional, it could be omitted. But nobody every made representing logfiles a requirement for a markup language. It is usually far more important that logfiles are compact and are readable if the program crashes (or the disk fills) when a record is partly-written. wunder -- Walter R. Underwood Senior Staff Engineer Infoseek Software GO Network, part of The Walt Disney Company wunder@i... http://software.infoseek.com/cce/ (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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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