From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,55958fd991db66fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-12 09:56:53 PST Message-ID: <3D80C422.3080402@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language) References: <3D7CA9E3.51C3015A@acm.org> <3D7F71E0.2070309@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:43:14 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1031848995 198.96.47.195 (Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:43:15 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:43:15 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28878 Date: 2002-09-12T12:43:14-04:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > : XML (which is just a data format), > > No. Actually this characterization is quite far off. > The fact that many people think XML is a data format > doesn't make it one. You can use the "XML declarative > toolset (with types, and with support for static and > runtime type checking)" to define data formats, via a > grammar specification. L stands for Language, and there > is more to it than bracketted words looking like > "syntax clutter". SCNR. > > Would anyone want to use C-OS? > > -- Georg Agreed that there is a "standard" behind XML, but in the end, after you've specified your document type definition (or whatever it is now), you still boil down to conventions and data format. Beyond that, you are just talking about tools that work with XML. I guess what I am saying is that you havn't convinced me that XML is anything more than a "data format and standard". -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg