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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2f2ae3c6286f407b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Tokenizing a string in Ada Date: 2000/11/03 Message-ID: <6oRPrI8wtiN6@eisner.decus.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 689327150 References: <20001103063537.25697.00000237@ng-mf1.news.cs.com> <8tuk98$c7k$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3a030814@rsl2.rslnet.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 973278356 216.44.122.34 (Fri, 03 Nov 2000 19:05:56 GMT) Organization: LJK Software NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 19:05:56 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3a030814@rsl2.rslnet.net>, "Tom Hargraves" writes: > I have seen just as many different ways to save this data, from a variety of > tags, indenture, tuples etc. Is there not some standard way of doing this? > If there isn't should there be? > > Is XML a standard we should choose? Seems to provide nesting, a flexible tag > schema, and freely available format checkers. What "we" should use depends considerably on the problem domain in which we are involved. For me, the obvious choice ASN.1 DER.