... Please can I very gently suggest that we stick precisely to what David has suggested. It has the merit that we all understand it. [Strange as it may seem I...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 18, 1997 3:22 am
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... Yes - this is really important, because it fixes the terminology. We also know whether we have a Vector of children or some other model. P. Peter...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 18, 1997 5:19 am
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At 10:12 17/12/97 -0800, Mark L. Fussell wrote: [... offer of MONDO on top of API...] ... sounds great to me :-) I'll leave the others to comment on the DOM...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 18, 1997 5:13 am
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... An IDL interface implies no extra complication in the Java interface. It merely describes the Java interface in terms that are more universal than Java...
Paul Prescod
papresco@...
Dec 17, 1997 11:29 pm
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At 14:03 17/12/97 -0500, David Megginson wrote: [...] ... String data); ... I'd tend to agree on keeping PIs in as well. Both Lark and lfred do them at ...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 18, 1997 5:17 am
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... First, let's simplify your SGML DTD, which has too many brackets in it: <!ELEMENT LE - - (a , b , c+ , d , e) +(f , g , h) > <!ELEMENT m - - (o |...
Neil Bradley
neil@...
Dec 18, 1997 5:25 am
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A few comments related to a few posts: I. Multiplicity of Application - Processor relationship The "one app, multiple processors argument" is not convincing in...
Simeon Simeonov
simeons@...
Dec 18, 1997 12:37 am
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... As are we all... ... Inclusions and (to a lesser extent) exclusions have never really been a great idea in SGML because of the potential for them to behave...
Marcus Carr
mrc@...
Dec 18, 1997 4:46 pm
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... If Chris does not object or respond, I can step up and provide the implementation for MSXML by 12 January. There is nothing in the license that prohibits...
Don Park
donpark@...
Dec 17, 1997 10:36 pm
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... OOPS. Point taken. ... While David suggested that add/removeApplication methods allow implementation of XmlProcessors which support multiple...
Don Park
donpark@...
Dec 17, 1997 10:18 pm
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At 14:36 17/12/97 -0800, Don Park wrote: [...] ... Great - I would really love the have that. I assume that it is fairly stable now (1.8?) and that the various...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 18, 1997 8:55 am
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... Yes! I would like to be able to store one or more DTDs as resources within a JAR file. Within a <!doctype ... SYSTEM "URL"> I'd like to be able to refer...
Russell East
reast@...
Dec 18, 1997 2:50 am
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Since JavaSoft is notoriously late updating its web pages, I thought some of you might be interested to know that JDK 1.2 Public Beta is finally out at: ...
Don Park
donpark@...
Dec 18, 1997 3:19 am
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... I am not sure if this is at all relevant to this discussion, but I got some info via email from the JDC newsletter that gives an interesting tip on how to ...
Tyler Baker
tyler@...
Sep 15, 1997 11:15 am
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... XML attributes will probably have relative URLs in them and the XML Application will have to know how to resolve them. Tim is right that attributes are...
Paul Prescod
papresco@...
Dec 18, 1997 11:35 am
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... I think this is a tremendously important subject, Russell - thanks. One of the exciting aspects of SGML/XML over the WWW is that it makes it possible to...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 18, 1997 6:34 pm
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... [...] Thanks Paul, ... I think this is right - the "application" is going to have to do a lot of additional testing for semantic validity. XLL is full of...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 18, 1997 7:00 pm
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At 04:15 15/09/97 -0400, Tyler Baker wrote: [...] ... some info Well *I* found it extremely valuable :-). This is exactly the sort of thing that novices will...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 18, 1997 6:51 pm
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I like the way this discussion is going. I don't want to be on anyone's critical path, but I'll be trying out these interfaces (as an "application writer") if...
Michael Kay
M.H.Kay@...
Dec 18, 1997 7:35 pm
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I think that the time has come to deal with a question that we have postponed so far: the goal of a simple XML event-driven interface. Right now, there are two...
David Megginson
ak117@...
Dec 18, 1997 3:32 pm
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I released a version of mindo-j and an example DOM ObjectBuilder to: http://www.chimu.com/projects/mondo/release/ mindo-j is a minimal subset of MONDO suitable...
Mark L. Fussell
fussellm@...
Dec 18, 1997 2:14 pm
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... This is really great Michael. My vision of (at least one role of) the interface is precisely what you describe. An intelligent, but ignorant Java/XML...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 18, 1997 10:52 pm
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At 06:14 18/12/97 -0800, Mark L. Fussell wrote: [...] ... Great. This is getting very close to David's 3+3 :-) P. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 18, 1997 11:24 pm
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... I would strongly suggest first designing the genealogical object model from the GEDCOM definitions (and other sources) without considering XML or DOM at...
Mark L. Fussell
fussellm@...
Dec 18, 1997 2:40 pm
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... Good thinking. One of the really great aspects of XML was/is the 10 goals. ... Yes. This is needed. It will be needed after the DOM is finalised. (It ...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 18, 1997 11:21 pm
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... DTD: <!ATTLIST foo bar CDATA "hack"> Document instance: <foo>...</foo> The attribute "bar" has the value "hack", and is not specified (i.e., it is a...
David Megginson
ak117@...
Dec 18, 1997 5:58 pm
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... Lark does this now; amazing how Java, which "doesn't have pointers because they're error-prone", does have something that smells just like (void *)... in...
Tim Bray
tbray@...
Dec 18, 1997 3:28 pm
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Since some of us may have time to relax, and since the following is *very* close to what we are doing with the API, I have forwarded something I have just...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 19, 1997 12:30 am
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Peter> Peter Murray-Rust <URL:mailto:peter@...> ... Peter> Is it the question of the return value of a non-existent Peter> attribute. IOW what...
Toby Speight
tms@...
Dec 19, 1997 12:32 am
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... I don't think nsgmls (for example) makes this distinction and I don't remember ever wishing it did. When do you need to know this? As an author, I...