i m using sun's parser. i am able form a DOM tree provided i read from xml file using the parser my problem goes like this i hav a html page in the front end ....
V Arun Kumar
varun@...
Dec 1, 1999 9:59 am
15400
... Then why do most XML parsers: a. choose to exclude an arbitrary set of features e.g. PIs, external entities etc.? b. consistently fail conformity tests? ...
Philip Nye
philipnye@...
Dec 1, 1999 11:21 am
15401
First create an InputSource Object with the byte/character stream and then pass it to the parser. Examples are there in the api docs which comes along with the...
Indrajit Chaudhuri
IndrajitC@...
Dec 1, 1999 12:58 pm
15402
I am an Application tool/framework developer/integrator. I sit (sort of) half-way between XML Parser-writers and XML tool-vendors. I developed a pseudo-DOM...
Shaw Tim
tshw@...
Dec 1, 1999 2:36 pm
15403
Hi Shaw, Shaw said: 1) how are the (real) XML developers approaching XML Schema? Will it be transparent to applications, and just constrain the data as per...
Didier PH Martin
martind@...
Dec 1, 1999 3:24 pm
15404
I've posted a variation of this to comp.text.xml also, so if it looks familiar, that's where you saw it... I'm writing an xml document analysis tool and would...
... My attempt to explain RDF is at http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/98/06/rdf.html -Tim xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@... ...
Tim Bray
tbray@...
Dec 1, 1999 4:22 pm
15408
Tim Bray said: ... My attempt to explain RDF is at http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/98/06/rdf.html -Tim You may also want to take a look at Tim Berners-Lee's ...
Ron Daniel
RDaniel@...
Dec 1, 1999 8:40 pm
15409
... Very good, Ron. Well said. And here is my attempt to explain why RDF hasn't been more successful: The syntax is hideously ugly and hard to understand, and...
Tim Bray
tbray@...
Dec 1, 1999 8:50 pm
15410
... This works fine for inherently binary relations, but for n-ary relations you end up reifying them by introducing a dummy node. Matching against that dummy...
Larry Watanabe
LWatanab@...
Dec 1, 1999 9:24 pm
15411
... I think Tim has shouted it in public as well. It's a shame, because RDF is very nice for exchanging object-oriented information among loosely-coupled...
David Megginson
david@...
Dec 1, 1999 9:53 pm
15412
... Agree. I've written a product that used MCF (RDF's predecessor) and written schemas for OODBs, and I can't make much sense of the RDF spec. Maybe it is...
Walter Underwood
wunder@...
Dec 1, 1999 10:09 pm
15413
... I can see the enormous interest in having a text-based format for exchanging object-oriented data. But can't this be done with a good object-oriented XML...
Matthew Gertner
matthew@...
Dec 1, 1999 10:24 pm
15414
As an RDF user, I agree with all comments about the complexity of its syntax and the specification itself. I spent about a month reading and rereading the RDF...
Jeffrey E. Sussna
jes@...
Dec 1, 1999 10:40 pm
15415
I think the important thing to remember about RDF is that it is not XML. It is fundamentally an abstract model for expressing metadata. It happens to be ...
Jeffrey E. Sussna
jes@...
Dec 1, 1999 10:41 pm
15416
... That's just the problem with the spec -- if you forget the word/prefix "meta" completely, RDF is just an XML format for object exchange; it just happens...
David Megginson
david@...
Dec 1, 1999 10:41 pm
15417
Hi David, David said: The problem is that the RDF-Syntax spec confounds even its bravest readers by trying to do two things at once: a) define a model and...
Didier PH Martin
martind@...
Dec 1, 1999 10:42 pm
15418
... Perhaps I'm a little confused, but I cannot see how the fact that a schema language itself happens to be object oriented allows you to do object exchange...
David Megginson
david@...
Dec 1, 1999 10:50 pm
15419
... When people talk about RDF, the "meta" part is what I have trouble with in general. In what way is markup not metadata? In what way are element content...
Eve L. Maler
elm@...
Dec 1, 1999 11:01 pm
15420
Hi Eve! Actually, I've brought a similar issue up with RDF group members on a few occasions. I've asked for help understanding why I'd choose the RDF syntax...
Joe Lapp
jlapp@...
Dec 1, 1999 11:25 pm
15421
... Because the same data structures and usage patterns keep coming back across wide ranges of metadata applications, even though the world isn't about to...
Tim Bray
tbray@...
Dec 1, 1999 11:49 pm
15422
... Wow, that's a profoundly deep and strong statement, and I think at the core of the argument that *should* be happening about how to make the Web a better...
Tim Bray
tbray@...
Dec 1, 1999 11:49 pm
15423
... That's a very strong motivation. But we have to balance that with another very strong motivation: making the documents easy to understand by the people...
Joe Lapp
jlapp@...
Dec 1, 1999 11:55 pm
15424
... Not that I don't respect RDF's power, but personally, I think the key *is* common vocabularies. We may have to start small, and they may just be hub ...
Eve L. Maler
elm@...
Dec 2, 1999 12:05 am
15425
It is not reasonable to ask the user to figure it out. RDF, along with much of XML, is not really suited (or at least in RDF's case, intended) for direct human...
Jeffrey E. Sussna
jes@...
Dec 2, 1999 12:20 am
15426
It's funny: when you talk about RDF, it seems very complex, but when you use it, it seems very simple. I am using RDF as an interchange format for metadata...
Jeffrey E. Sussna
jes@...
Dec 2, 1999 12:24 am
15427
Well, you need both. You need the shared concept of "author" and the shared representation of an instance of that concept. XML specs of various kinds are...
Jeffrey E. Sussna
jes@...
Dec 2, 1999 12:25 am
15428
... Though I'm the one that brought CORBA into the discussion, I think that a better comparison would probably be XMI, since CORBA is a protocol rather than a...
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