I was looking at writing an application which interprets XML for general distribution - the purpose is filing of forms data. (Many peculiar requirements exist...
Trevor Croll
litebook@...
Jul 1, 1999 12:34 pm
11536
... Ah, but remember the Oz Law Of Export: keep the good stuff for ourselves. The quality of an export product from Australia is no indication of the quality...
John Cowan
cowan@...
Jul 1, 1999 3:58 pm
11537
Greetings. I'm new to this list and to XML. In a DTD, can I base the inclusion of an optional element on an attribute? For example, I have: <!ELEMENT...
John Martin
John.Martin@...
Jul 1, 1999 6:11 pm
11538
I am trying to understand how applications can use XML to pass data to one another. Here is a scenario: Say I have middleware that applications must use to...
John Martin
John.Martin@...
Jul 1, 1999 6:11 pm
11539
... No. I recall a previous discussion about this issue if you care to look it up in the archives. A possible solution is <!ELEMENT NCSB-Message...
Ruth Bergman
Ruth@...
Jul 1, 1999 7:00 pm
11540
... Once you have your data packaged as XML documents, you need to select a protocol for exchange of the information between applications. For async...
Jonathan Borden
jborden@...
Jul 1, 1999 9:31 pm
11541
... To wit, I am relocating to the US where I should not be taken as any indication of the quality of other Jameses in Australia. James xml-dev: A list for W3C...
James Tauber
jtauber@...
Jul 2, 1999 3:27 am
11542
... Welcome. ... No, you can't. ... This kind of subclassing would either (1) have to be checked by your application (2) have to be achieved using different...
James Tauber
jtauber@...
Jul 2, 1999 3:30 am
11543
... No, you can't do this, but you can do something similar. You write your NCSB DTD like this: <!ELEMENT NCSB-Message (Service-Version-Number,...
James Tauber
jtauber@...
Jul 2, 1999 3:34 am
11544
... I think we are in pretty close agreement. The idea of using visual style cues to direct the user towards the correct choices is powerful. Getting these...
Philip Nye
philipnye@...
Jul 2, 1999 9:47 am
11545
... When I was at AT&T years ago, there was a company legend (possibly apocryphal) about the length of US telephone numbers. According to this legend, Bell...
John E. Simpson
simpson@...
Jul 2, 1999 12:44 pm
11546
... This has its roots in the paper "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information" (1956), Psychological...
Dan Brickley
Daniel.Brickley@...
Jul 2, 1999 12:54 pm
11547
John Simpson wrote: When I was at AT&T years ago, there was a company legend (possibly apocryphal) about the length of US telephone numbers. According to this ...
Andy.Bradbury@...
Jul 2, 1999 1:00 pm
11548
... Very deft <g>. Thank you for the references! ... Couldn't find any mention of AT&T or Bell Labs (or for that matter, any occurrences of the string "phone"...
John E. Simpson
simpson@...
Jul 2, 1999 1:33 pm
11549
... Note, BTW, that the "7 items" theory refers to the limits of *working memory* only. In particular, it is completely irrelevant to tasks involving picking...
Eric Bohlman
ebohlman@...
Jul 2, 1999 2:19 pm
11550
Hi, The magic seven comes from a well know article form George Miller in 1956 called "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity...
Didier PH Martin
martind@...
Jul 2, 1999 2:20 pm
11551
Hi Everybody, My DTD looks like this. <!ELEMENT PERSON (NAME, ADDRESS, CITY, PHONE)> <!ELEMENT NAME EMPTY> <!ATTLIST NAME NAME_VALUE CDATA #REQUIRED> <!ELEMENT...
Mallikarjuna Sangappa
malliks@...
Jul 2, 1999 2:29 pm
11552
... Complexity Reference: compref238 (BibTex) Authors: Miller,GA Year: 1956 Title: The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for...
Kay Michael
Michael.Kay@...
Jul 2, 1999 2:41 pm
11553
... This one is not valid; a validating parser should reject it. ... This one is valid. There's no way to declare that an attribute is non-empty text. You ...
Richard Tobin
richard@...
Jul 2, 1999 3:46 pm
11554
Beta versions of the Inventure Data Browser (IDB) for Excel are available for free download at http://www.inventure.com/ The IDB is a set of analytic...
Dan Adler
adan@...
Jul 2, 1999 6:48 pm
11555
The just-in-time proposal period for presentations at the GCA XML Developers' Conference in Montreal is now open. Proposals will be accepted through 16 July...
Jon Bosak
bosak@...
Jul 3, 1999 5:05 am
11556
From: Eric Bohlman <ebohlman@...> ... any ... version ... Thanks to John S., Dan B. and all, for the references and info. ... require ... the ... Miller...
Rick Jelliffe
ricko@...
Jul 3, 1999 7:51 am
11557
... Before completing your system design, check out JetForm's new XFA - XML Forms Architecture: http://www.xfa.com/ You may find everything you need to base...
G. Ken Holman
gkholman@...
Jul 4, 1999 8:39 pm
11558
... exists no time T in which Superman and Clark Kent both exist simultaneously, and as a corollary, there exists no person P such that P is both Superman and...
Christopher Lane
zzyzlane@...
Jul 4, 1999 10:25 pm
11559
... In fact if you go to http://www.w3.org/TR there are two submissions there on e-forms, XFA and another one called XFDL. I haven't read XFA and I don't know...
Tim Bray
tbray@...
Jul 4, 1999 11:20 pm
11560
... Indeed, he was Superman *all* of the time. Identity either holds or it doesn't; there is no such thing as "becoming identical" or "ceasing to be...
John Cowan
cowan@...
Jul 4, 1999 11:38 pm
11561
Yes it does help, it is what I was looking for and every other applications developer who will be doing work on data bases may also need, it is truely very...
Trevor Croll
litebook@...
Jul 5, 1999 12:05 am
11562
Thanks Tim, I will look at these submissions, I have looked at XFA already and it is very promising for my application. AFA is what I was looking for and every...
Trevor Croll
litebook@...
Jul 5, 1999 12:08 am
11563
... It's the HTML working group. If you are a member of the W3C, go to the HTML WG's web page, and you fill find a whole lot of forms related input and a ...
Peter Stark
stark@...
Jul 5, 1999 1:36 am
11564
... Perhaps the three groups (XFA, XFDL, and HTML forms) should get together outside W3C to create an XHTML module for rich form support. It is my opinion...