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Hi Oleg,
Oleg A. Paraschenko wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
>
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:46:56 +0200
> Philippe Poulard <Philippe.Poulard@s...> wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>RefleX 0.1.3, a general-purpose XML Virtual Machine, is available here :
>>http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/
>
>
> I used to utilize the buzzword "XML Virtual Machine" for my works, but now
> I'm in doubt. What "XML Virtual Machine" could be? What properties are
> expected from it?
I would answer the same for Java : any machine that could translate XML
in something that can run on this machine
I called my executable XML "Active Tags" ; Active Tags just specifies a
behaviour, not how you could implement it : if you want to write an
interpreter or a compiler, translate XML to Java code (or any other
language), load precompiled classes, or combine several of them, you're
welcome.
RefleX is an implementation in Java of Active Tags. I find it close to
the idea of what people would think of an "XML Virtual Machine" : a
general-purpose environment that can perform programs made with tags.
The idea of "general-purpose" is more important than "tags" : a syntax à
la XQuery could be a candidate, but XQuery is not a "general-purpose"
language ; thus a pure implementation of XQuery can't be an "XML Virtual
Machine", although it could be extended to.
Of course, all that can be discussed :)
>
> And are you sure that just using XML syntax for programming qualifies for
> the proud title of "XML Virtual Machine"?
As I said previously, I think it's not enough.
XML technologies like XML and XPath are used in Active Tags to achieve
things that are not necessary related to XML.
>
>
>>In this release, you'll find tutorials for mapping SQL to arbitrary
>>complex XML structures, and for experimenting the Active Schema Language
>> : express constraints on XML documents that you can't achieve with DTD,
>>
>>W3C XML Schema, neither Relax NG, and define custom semantic data types.
>>
>>Enjoy !
>>
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Cordialement,
///
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