Re: Data table text I/O package?

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:47:10 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

>>>>Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>>>>But for data exchange there are better techniques than XML.
>>>>
>>>>Such as ...?
>>>
>>>Take any middleware available.
>>
>>Uhm, yes, such as ...?
> 
> 
> CORBA, OPC (hmm), RPC etc, Ada.Streams after all.

How does one debug data passed using RPC etc, for example
when the P could not be called due to some data error?



> That is true, but error correction codes (Hamming etc) are *known* to be
> optimal. This is a hard mathematical fact. So any bandwidth available
> should be invested there rather than at the application level in fancy
> things like </> brackets.

Here is an interesting point. SGML comes with SDIF (not the digital
sound thing, but SGML Document Interchange Format). SDIF by default
is kind of defined in ASN.1. So there are actually two layers of
data...


>>[XSL transformation]
>>
>>
>>>And why this nightmare cannot be written in Ada?
>>
>>Because it would explode even more.
> 
> 
> I don't believe it! (:-))

Some XSL "primitives" are quite powerful, when compared
to Ada "primitives".


> So I vote for
> Ada and plain tables. (:-))

For your eyes' pleasure yes, for the robust transmission of non-regular
data in a heterogenous uncontrolled setting, no. ;)