I invite the XML community to try and look at ChordML. The purpose of it is to define a way for people to exchange simple music with simple lyrics and chords. ...
Gustavo Frederico
gcsfred@...
Jan 1, 1999 6:29 pm
6310
Call For Articles Crossroads, the Association for Computing Machinery Student Magazine Markup Languages (Winter 1999) DUE DATE: April 15, 1999 ...
Kimberly S Moorman
moor0361@...
Jan 2, 1999 2:16 am
6311
A new version of XP, my XML parser in Java, is now available. See http://www.jclark.com/xml/xp/index.html for more information. This release has few changes:...
James Clark
jjc@...
Jan 2, 1999 3:27 am
6312
... Sincere compliments and thanks to you, Nazmul Idris. That is a very fine tutorial and an excellent contribution. To XML developers: The tutorial by...
len bullard
cbullard@...
Jan 2, 1999 10:13 pm
6313
IMHO, Occam's Razor between XML and DBMS revolves around data complexity and multiple updaters. If the XML phonebook had every US phone number, you wouldn't...
Dan Holle
dan@...
Jan 3, 1999 10:02 am
6314
... [etc.] Actually, XML would be a wonderful way to transfer every U.S. phone number from one database to another, but querying an XML document (or a...
david@...
Jan 3, 1999 3:45 pm
6315
... The primary answer I give this question is flexibility, though there is a significant cost in efficiency. XML documents can easily hold structures that...
Simon St.Laurent
simonstl@...
Jan 3, 1999 4:54 pm
6316
... One important point is the scale of the implementation and the intended use. If you were developing a system for a company that was entirely ...
Paul Butkiewicz
arabbit@...
Jan 3, 1999 6:36 pm
6317
... Me too, Paul. Let's not think of XML as a representation for a complex multi-table multi-user shared database. DOM, as a database, is like a RAM-resident ...
Dan Holle
dan@...
Jan 3, 1999 7:30 pm
6318
... I think this is exactly the reason why. Now with the DOM it is very easy to take an XML 'data source' and to run sorts, filters, finds and scrolls on it,...
Frank Boumphrey
bckman@...
Jan 4, 1999 2:53 am
6319
The reason I tend to give for this is as follows: - Complex Data Structures. The data structure in your XML can more accurately represent so called "real...
Matthew Sergeant (EML)
Matthew.Sergeant@...
Jan 4, 1999 9:04 am
6320
Very interesting topic! But how a about the following twist: We keep our relational databases for speed etc. and make them accessible thru the DOM. That way...
Ralf Westphal / Basic...
RalfW@...
Jan 4, 1999 9:23 am
6321
I admit I am rather late in answering this message, i.e. it has been posted 11.12.1998. But as far as I understood the archive no one else has answered it and...
Juliane Harbarth
jhb@...
Jan 4, 1999 1:55 pm
6322
[I've dropped the cross-post to xlxp-dev because this is a pretty straight XML issue.] ... The simplest case is when your data store is keeping a bunch of...
Simon St.Laurent
simonstl@...
Jan 4, 1999 3:08 pm
6323
... format, and RDBMs are very sophisticated storage and retrieval tools. Different species, but they can be taught to play together nicely. Excellent! That's...
Dave Winer
dave@...
Jan 4, 1999 3:00 pm
6324
This got bounced the first time I think - apologies if I'm duplicating. cheers Jonathan ... Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:00:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathan Irving -...
Jonathan Irving - Sun...
Jonathan.Irving@...
Jan 4, 1999 4:17 pm
6325
Thanks. One of the intentions of XML-Data was to make aliases for names explicit. See http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-XML-data-0105/#Aliases Here is text from...
Andrew Layman
andrewl@...
Jan 4, 1999 7:01 pm
6326
... I'm glad I'm not the first to come up with this, and glad to see as well that the idea's had a reasonably full expression. Aliasing seems not to be in...
Simon St.Laurent
simonstl@...
Jan 4, 1999 7:28 pm
6327
... There's a fascinating article about this issue and the Dublin Core set of simple metadata tags. Even with such a small set, the translation issues are...
Avi Rappoport
avirr@...
Jan 4, 1999 7:38 pm
6328
... Simon: this is exactly the kind of thing that people can use architectural forms for. The full version of AFs suffers from the common SGML difficulty of...
david@...
Jan 4, 1999 8:09 pm
6329
While writing a blip about XML's support for multiple languages (Unicode, xml:lang, etc.), it occurred to me that XML still has a ways to go toward removing...
Simon St.Laurent
simonstl@...
Jan 4, 1999 6:43 pm
6330
... Absolutely correct -- what I mean by "light-weight" processing is processing a document without reference to an external schema. Namespaces do allow this,...
david@...
Jan 4, 1999 9:26 pm
6331
... This discussion is setting off a lot of alarm bells for me, most of which go off periodically anyway. I really wish that the XML spec had cleanly separated...
Simon St.Laurent
simonstl@...
Jan 4, 1999 9:46 pm
6332
... Since we're on the topic, SOX offers equivalence like so: <elementtype name="livre"> <instanceof name="book"/> </elementtype> <elementtype name="auteur"> ...
Murray Maloney
murray@...
Jan 4, 1999 10:52 pm
6333
I made an error in one of my examples. This line: <include name="loc" namespace="http://www.loc.gov"/> should read: <namespace name="loc"...
Murray Maloney
murray@...
Jan 4, 1999 10:56 pm
6334
Section 6 of the Namespace Proposed Rec, "Conformance of Documents", states ... The effect of conformance is that in such a document: * All element types and...
Simon St.Laurent
simonstl@...
Jan 5, 1999 3:13 am
6335
I have seen several references to the processing instruction "<?xml:namespace". I have also read the "Namespaces in XML" spec, which discusses the "xmlns:"...
Jeffrey E. Sussna
jes@...
Jan 5, 1999 1:45 am
6336
The processing instruction was used in drafts of the Namespaces specification until approximately August 1998, at which time it was supplanted by the...
Andrew Layman
andrewl@...
Jan 5, 1999 1:51 am
6337
... I think we can observe the rule that the more a name is like a "keyword", the less reason there is need for a local version. The more the name is like a...
Rick Jelliffe
ricko@...
Jan 5, 1999 1:55 am
6338
Thanks to Andrew for the answer to my question. Unfortunately, it raises a couple of other questions: 1. I assume reserved attributes such as "xmlns" need not...
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