... 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...
Paul Prescod
papresco@...
Dec 18, 1997 8:55 pm
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Perhaps I should clarify my question: Should a common XML event-based API supply enough information to build a DOM representation of a document? All the best, ...
David Megginson
ak117@...
Dec 18, 1997 10:58 pm
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... I agree that it is the Right Thing to do. If everyone else agrees it is the Right Thing to do I will be very happy. If 10% agrees and the other 90% don't...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 19, 1997 3:07 am
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... Maybe, maybe not, depending what you mean by "common". For the simple interface we're trying to build, this cannot be remotely a goal. The only goal...
Tim Bray
tbray@...
Dec 18, 1997 9:05 pm
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... My apologies to anyone who was offended, or whose manager was offended. P. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 19, 1997 6:31 am
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... I've been lurking on this list for months now. Peter's post is the first one I've actually copied to friends. In sight of the holiday(s), I think it's...
Jim Harmon
jharmon@...
Dec 19, 1997 1:53 am
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... Sorry, my mistake -- it's Omnimark, not Jade, that tells you whether an attribute was specified. With groves, I think that you'd need the basesds1 module...
David Megginson
ak117@...
Dec 19, 1997 4:06 am
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... not ... Lets' put people out of their misery! And not let it escalate :-) Murray's post was intended in the same spirit and contained enough allusions to...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 19, 1997 5:34 pm
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This message is probably trivial for those with a lsp+ gene, but it may open new horizons for those like me. It has come as a revelation to me that XML *with...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 19, 1997 7:06 pm
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... In case everyone does not already know, JDK 1.2 beta 2 is out on SUN's web site at http://java.sun.com It now has unsynchronized collection classes which...
Tyler Baker
tyler@...
Sep 16, 1997 1:13 pm
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... Thanks, yes. I agree absolutely. Fortunately my background is in data modelling so I'm happy with this side of things. My design problem is whether to...
Michael Kay
M.H.Kay@...
Dec 19, 1997 7:50 pm
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At 06:13 16/09/97 -0400, Tyler Baker wrote: Thanks very much Tyler - this was news to me. ... site ... JUMBO is 1.02 and I was planning to go to 1.1.4. Is...
Peter Murray-Rust
peter@...
Dec 19, 1997 8:41 pm
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... This reminds me of another reason why you need positional information even in a simple interface. Suppose you have a document doc.xml that references an...
James Clark
jjc@...
Dec 20, 1997 3:19 am
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... Well yah most of it is stable. It has no new language features other than weak references (which really are not a language feature like inner classes),...