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,c58d0944b1fbcea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-10 01:35:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed.icl.net!opentransit.net!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!teaser.fr!proxad.net!feeder2-1.proxad.net!nnrp1.proxad.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Sender: briot@lyon.act-europe.fr Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.6 released References: <87zo86drnb.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> From: Emmanuel Briot Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.105 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:35:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.228.58.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net X-Trace: nnrp1.proxad.net 1000110950 213.228.58.160 (Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:35:50 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:35:50 CEST Organization: Guest of ProXad - France Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12976 Date: 2001-09-10T08:35:50+00:00 List-Id: "David Botton" writes: > I only wish I could afford to write things like an SVG engine using XMLAda > and GtkAda. Talk about killer App for Ada, see > http://www.adobe.com/svg/overview/svg.html SVG in a nutshell is a graphic > meta file format using XML. It may very well (combined with JavaScript) > become a major open replacement technology to Macromedia Flash and much > more. This certainly is a very nice idea. I have received a mail from someone else who was interested in doing that, I can't remember the name right now. Volunteers ? In fact, a first step might be (but probably not required) to support XML schemas (the thing that replaces the DTD, to describe documents' grammars), so that we can check the SVG grammar. Emmanuel