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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 16:09:10 +0200
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On Wed, 09 May 2012 15:56:32 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> On 09.05.12 15:00, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On Wed, 09 May 2012 07:06:06 -0500, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>> 
>>> I think XML is not good for math.
>> 
>> XML is not good for anything.  I don't care about Web but in automation it
>> becomes a growing problem that precious bandwidth and human resources are
>> spent on chewing XML mess.
> 
> Writing math papers and making data traveling automation networks
> seem rather different use cases.

Yes, though XML is usually advocated as a universal solution for
everything.

Just two weeks ago, or so, XML was proposed to handle Ada source code.

Wouldn't be great to have math in XML:

<operation name='*'>
   <number>
     <digit position=1>3</digit>
     <digit position=2>1</digit>
   </number>
   <number>
     <digit position=1>5</digit>
     <digit position=2>6</digit>
   </number>
...

no?

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de