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On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 14:27, Norman Walsh wrote:
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> / Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...> was heard to say:
> |> Well, as long as it's in XML anyway. Not if it's in some other text-based
> |> syntax.
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> | Not only. I would say as long as it's tree based and that a parser can
> | be writen to expose it as XML. That extends the scope a lot!
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> Yes, naturally. I didn't mean literally placed on the relevant storage
> medium using pointy brackets.
But this also embraces many text based formats (such as for instance
WikiML [1], CVS [2], the RSS text format [3] that I have proposed a
while ago and even the compact syntax for Relax NG). For specific usages
like these, there is no need to put the burden of the syntax of a
generic and highly extensible markup language on the shoulders of the
authors, at least when a mapping can be defined.
[1] http://wikiml.org/
[2] http://4xt.org/downloads/examples/csv/
[3] http://4xt.org/downloads/rss/example1.txt
Eric
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Did you know it? Python has now a Relax NG (partial) implementation.
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