... I think we should make the assumption that if the data is intended for people, there will be a browser to help them read it. In my view, localisation is a...
Michael Kay
M.H.Kay@...
Dec 1, 1998 9:46 am
6019
... Then there is also the mixed UseCase with indexed webpages aimed for end-user consumption. Here it might be useful to include "data islands" with non...
Anders W. Tell
anderst@...
Dec 1, 1998 10:09 am
6020
... Actually, there is. I believe IEEE 754 describes one. That doesn't mean it's a good idea to use it in XML documents. ... In my ears, it sounds like a...
Ketil Z Malde
ketil@...
Dec 1, 1998 11:59 am
6021
... I like this, and I guess it's revealing that I didn't know you could do things like that. But who would I be to let lack of experience and knowledge be...
Ketil Z Malde
ketil@...
Dec 1, 1998 1:25 pm
6022
... Hum, so what really was thousand (<value>1,000</value>), gets parsed as one, since my default is a European locale. ... Perhaps somebody could explain to...
Ketil Z Malde
ketil@...
Dec 1, 1998 1:32 pm
6023
why doesn't one just use a processing instruction for this? ... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@... Archived as:...
james anderson
James.Anderson@...
Dec 1, 1998 1:42 pm
6024
... Then you've not looked at any of the parsers built on James Clark's expat library, for example the perl module XML::Parser. Expat does not read an external...
Clark Cooper
coopercl@...
Dec 1, 1998 2:44 pm
6025
... Lark and ... Well, actually, I knew there was a reason I was avoiding using Expat in my own work, and I knew there was a parser that behaved this way, but...
Simon St.Laurent
simonstl@...
Dec 1, 1998 3:13 pm
6026
Following the process being developed in the W3C XML Activity, the XML Fragment Working Group has just published its Requirements document as a publicly...
Paul Grosso
paul@...
Dec 1, 1998 3:24 pm
6027
I was looking at the Shakespeare samples (shakespeare.1.10.xml) on http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/xml/eg/ and noticed that the file play.dtd contains the...
Chris Lovett
clovett@...
Dec 1, 1998 5:18 pm
6028
Hi, since I'm no expert with XML, this may be an easy one, but still... I have the need to provide an editor for a large range of documents. The documents are...
heiko.grussbach@...
Dec 1, 1998 5:22 pm
6029
... This is not entirely surprising, since that file is dated 31 Jan 98, and the XML draft current at that time specified the declaration above! IE 5 appears...
Richard Tobin
richard@...
Dec 1, 1998 5:40 pm
6030
"I'm not suggesting that a set of simple XML data-typing constraints cannot be helpful -- if you're building a database only of Norwegian city names, you know...
roddey@...
Dec 1, 1998 7:13 pm
6031
One problem with PI is that there is no encapsulation, so the parser wouldn't know when to pop the namespace stack. If PI were expanded to include any kind of...
Bryan Cooper
bryan.cooper@...
Dec 1, 1998 7:15 pm
6032
... I was thinking along similar lines. I've been adding something like this to my XML documents: <prop name="state" xml:regexp="[A-Z]+">NY</prop> So the...
Joel Bender
joel@...
Dec 1, 1998 7:43 pm
6033
... I was under the impression that there was some standard patterns/parsers for this stuff being designed. So: <value xml:type="currency">1.5</value> Gets...
Joel Bender
joel@...
Dec 1, 1998 8:22 pm
6034
... It may not be politicaly correct, and depending on the context might even come across as ethnocentric, but IMHO that's not a bad thing. ... A standards...
Joel Bender
joel@...
Dec 1, 1998 9:09 pm
6035
All, In order to promote wide discussion of XLink/XPointer development issues, we are launching a new mailing list dedicated to these subjects. This comes ...
Ralph Ferris
ralph@...
Dec 1, 1998 9:49 pm
6036
"IMHO the purpose of ID/IDREF is to express non-hierarchical data using hierarchical notation. Appropriate use of ID and IDREF attributes allows the...
roddey@...
Dec 1, 1998 10:16 pm
6037
... In order to support the WORLD WIDE web properly - it's a MUCH harder problem, especially when dealing with Unicode (which is the default for XML data). See...
Leonard Rosenthol
leonardr@...
Dec 1, 1998 10:17 pm
6038
Hi, I was wondering if anybody has heard of a DTD-to-Database schema mapping tool? Thanks FF xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post,...
Farzad Farahbod
ffarahbo@...
Dec 1, 1998 11:41 pm
6039
... For the record, I disagree with moving XLink/Xpointer away from this mailing list. My capacity to watch lists is about maxed out, and the traffic here is...
Tim Bray
tbray@...
Dec 2, 1998 12:39 am
6040
... From: roddey@... <roddey@...> ... You could just make the IDREF attribute #IMPLIED: <!ATTLIST employee id ID #REQUIRED manager IDREF...
James Tauber
jtauber@...
Dec 2, 1998 3:21 am
6041
... Yes -- so you make one call to the method that does those several things, rather than several calls to primitive methods. "Helper Subroutines" (or methods,...
David Brownell
db@...
Dec 2, 1998 5:25 am
6042
... This is one of those areas where the XML spec gives too much (IMHO) leeway in terms of error reporting. While I think IE5 is doing a legal thing here,...
David Brownell
db@...
Dec 2, 1998 5:34 am
6043
... It's a neat way of doing it, since checking is optional and transparent to non-checking applications. ... The dividing line between attributes and elements...
Ketil Z Malde
ketil@...
Dec 2, 1998 7:56 am
6044
... Wouldn't this be better placed in a DTD? By adding a fixed, pre-set attribute with the regexp to element definitions in the DTD, you can enforce...
James Robertson
jamesr@...
Dec 2, 1998 8:12 am
6045
... The important point I'm trying to make, is that I don't want to enforce this on a global scale. I want to enforce this in a DTD, for a specific...
Ketil Z Malde
ketil@...
Dec 2, 1998 8:32 am
6046
... You make the IDREF attribute optional, and use the absence of a value (the #IMPLIED default) to indicate a node that has no "parent". There are many other...
Michael Kay
M.H.Kay@...
Dec 2, 1998 10:36 am
6047
Hello XML GURUS, 1. Will u say me what are advantages of xml other than user defined tags? 2. what are the browsers that supports xml. 3.How it coes into...