... I never actually got to this, so (unless someone else did it) there won't be an SML-DEV presentation there. I've been traveling far too much this month,...
Simon St.Laurent
simonstl@...
Jul 1, 2000 12:34 pm
3399
Simon St.Laurent wrote: <snip /> ... Simon, here's a typical reply I get from evaluators of our xmlFX C++ library, which is targeted at users who would be SML...
Dale Hunscher
dale@...
Jul 1, 2000 6:54 pm
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... From: "Dale Hunscher" <dale@...> To: <sml-dev@egroups.com> Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 2:55 PM Subject: RE: [sml-dev] Fwd: Extreme Markup...
Michael Champion
Mike.Champion@...
Jul 1, 2000 7:12 pm
3401
I'll ask Ben (the guy who wrote what I quoted) if he can suggest an example from whatever his problem domain is... ... From: Michael Champion...
Dale Hunscher
dale@...
Jul 1, 2000 8:37 pm
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... Sure. Sorry about late response. I should have more free time from this point on (unless I am halucinating from stress overload). My next project is...
Don Park
donpark@...
Jul 3, 2000 7:24 am
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... OK. Best, Don...
Don Park
donpark@...
Jul 3, 2000 7:24 am
3404
... Yes. Working code. Don...
Don Park
donpark@...
Jul 3, 2000 7:26 am
3405
http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=634...
Paul Tchistopolskii
pault12@...
Jul 5, 2000 9:21 am
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... John Wilson's MinML parser seems to be getting quite a bit of flak from those who aren't fond of functionality subsets: http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/ (top...
Simon St.Laurent
simonstl@...
Jul 5, 2000 9:06 pm
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... From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@...> To: <sml-dev@eGroups.com> Sent: 05 July 2000 22:09 Subject: [sml-dev] MinML parser flak ... I've had lots...
... From: Michael Champion ... I suggest to call the output of Don's Minimizer "Minimal XML v 1.0". I think we have missed something important with Minimal...
Paul Tchistopolskii
paul@...
Jul 6, 2000 2:24 am
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My thinking is that Elliotte's concerns are groundless. So what if people gets confused about what 'Minimal XML Parser' is. They will learn the difference as...
Don Park
donpark@...
Jul 6, 2000 6:23 am
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... Let me apply that logic in a different context and see if it still holds up: "So what if people get confused about what the 'MSXML' parser is. They will...
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@...
Jul 6, 2000 11:22 am
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... Not at all. There are two different things getting mixed up together here. 1. A Minimal XML DOCUMENT is an XML document because it follows all the rules of...
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@...
Jul 6, 2000 11:22 am
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... My concerns with the MSXML parser have primarily dealt with the fact that it accepts a superset of XML - notably the old </> debacle. That leads people...
Simon St.Laurent
simonstl@...
Jul 6, 2000 11:30 am
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Oops. Sent too early. I'll add the last paragraph. ... Yes, that's a bit more work for those of us writing tutorials, but explaining such things up front,...
Simon St.Laurent
simonstl@...
Jul 6, 2000 11:35 am
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This may well be so. However MinML is not a parser which only accepts Minimal XML it's a parser which accepts full XML except for mixed content (it also...
John Wilson
tug@...
Jul 6, 2000 11:55 am
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... Interesting. I didn't know that. However, my concern is that it flags many real-world XML documents as non well-formed when in fact they are. Entity...
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@...
Jul 6, 2000 12:55 pm
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... Hmmm... I'm looking at David Brownell's conformance results at: http://www.xml.com/2000/05/10/conformance/reports/msxml3-nv.html I can't find much comment...
Simon St.Laurent
simonstl@...
Jul 6, 2000 1:10 pm
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The classic example is the XML 1.0 spec in XML. Even with the latest version of MSXML, it still fails to load in IE5. They're a lot of other common examples,...
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@...
Jul 6, 2000 2:33 pm
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... Mixed content is something that *is* natural to many people, so it's hard to avoid... especially if hand-editing. To many people <p>This is...
Gavin Thomas Nicol
gtn@...
Jul 7, 2000 5:30 pm
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... Actually, parser, data maodel, API implementers hate mixed content for reasons we all have come to understand after months of discussion here on SML (and...
Bob La Quey
robertl1@...
Jul 7, 2000 6:05 pm
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Yes, I can quite see why many people would want it. However, my parser runs on systems with 1,000th the power and 1,000th the storage capacity of an entry...
John Wilson
tug@...
Jul 7, 2000 6:15 pm
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... Yeh, I agree with what you are doing and your reasons for doing it. I probably should have changed the subject since this comment was really directed...
Bob La Quey
robertl1@...
Jul 7, 2000 8:26 pm
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... From: Bob La Quey <robertl1@...> To: <sml-dev@egroups.com> Sent: 07 July 2000 21:27 Subject: Re: [sml-dev] MinML parser flak [snip] ... as Mr....
John Wilson
tug@...
Jul 7, 2000 9:27 pm
3424
... Gee. Why do I have to get blamed for the whole trouble when I just started it? <g> IMHO, SML-DEV as a whole should be 'blamed'. Best, Don Park Docuverse...
Don Park
donpark@...
Jul 8, 2000 6:06 am
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... Not quite the same. MSXML is publicised as being a general XML parser while MinML is not. What MinML does not do is clearly marked even in the...
Don Park
donpark@...
Jul 8, 2000 6:15 am
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... To me, 'minimal' is no different from 'well-formed' in that both are qualifiers which places specific constraints upon the affected word: XML. There are...
Don Park
donpark@...
Jul 8, 2000 6:15 am
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... It depends on the data model and API. Mike and I can attest to the amount of time it took DOM to decide on text nodes.... horrible though they be. If you...