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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: XML generator
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:38:37 -0400
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But that was the original problem. Scan through some data - output some
XML...(repeat) and somewhere along the line a program change might make
invalid XML. Besides, from what I know of DTD, I don't see how that helps a
program *produce* XML from whatever information it has in memory as its
running. It might help you *validate* it after you generated the XML, but
that's about it. Its also not some sort of general-purpose programming
language that could be used, say, to parse an arbitrary Ada program and
generage some sort of XML markup from it. Check out the original statement
of the problem & I'm sure you'll see that we've got a bit of a
communications gap going here...

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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"Aidan Skinner" <aidan@velvet.net> wrote in message
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>
> I'd be worried if you're writing XML for which a valid DTD cannot be
> produced...
>