* [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.6 released @ 2001-09-07 16:27 Emmanuel Briot 2001-09-08 8:16 ` Florian Weimer 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Emmanuel Briot @ 2001-09-07 16:27 UTC (permalink / raw) We are happy to announce the release of a new version of XML/Ada (0.6). This is a set of Ada packages that can be used to manipulate XML streams. It includes a full XML parser (including for the DTD part), as well as SAX 2.0 and DOM 2.0 compliant interfaces (please see the web page and the documentation for more information on these interfaces). It also includes a Unicode module to manipulate and convert Unicode streams. It passes all of the applicable tests of the official XML conformance testsuite. This new release includes an optimized parser (rewritten from scratch since the previous release). This fixes the last problems with the official XML conformance testsuite. ACT is providing full support for this tool set. Let us know at sales@gnat.com or sales@act-europe.fr if you are interested in evaluating this library for commercial use. Emmanuel Briot ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.6 released 2001-09-07 16:27 [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.6 released Emmanuel Briot @ 2001-09-08 8:16 ` Florian Weimer 2001-09-09 2:36 ` David Botton ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Florian Weimer @ 2001-09-08 8:16 UTC (permalink / raw) Emmanuel Briot <briot@act-europe.fr> writes: > We are happy to announce the release of a new version of XML/Ada (0.6). If you don't remember, the URL is: http://libre.act-europe.fr/xmlada/ I think Emmanuel missed a change which is might be important for some people: XML/Ada is now released under the GPL with GNAT modifications. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.6 released 2001-09-08 8:16 ` Florian Weimer @ 2001-09-09 2:36 ` David Botton 2001-09-10 8:35 ` Emmanuel Briot [not found] ` <007f01c138d8$39293da0$0100a8c0@DBINSPIRON> 2001-09-10 14:04 ` Ted Dennison 2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: David Botton @ 2001-09-09 2:36 UTC (permalink / raw) To: comp.lang.ada > I think Emmanuel missed a change which is might be important for some > people: XML/Ada is now released under the GPL with GNAT modifications. YES YES YES YES Important to some!! To A L L of Ada advocacy!! Ada wins!! The GPL is a noble cause, but GPL on Ada (_library_) code doesn't advocate GPL ___OR___ Ada. A huge THANK YOU to the entire XML Ada team and to all of Ada Core Technologies Inc. who certainly did not _have to_ do this! Can you tell that I am happy with this :-) 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. (BTW Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator and others already output SVG) I can of course take advantage with Ada already on Win32 of Adobe's SVG engine using GNATCOM, but it would be very nice to have a cross platform version. (I better stop here before I start to sound like Robert Leif :-) David Botton ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.6 released 2001-09-09 2:36 ` David Botton @ 2001-09-10 8:35 ` Emmanuel Briot 2001-09-10 23:26 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Emmanuel Briot @ 2001-09-10 8:35 UTC (permalink / raw) "David Botton" <David@Botton.com> 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* RE: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.6 released 2001-09-10 8:35 ` Emmanuel Briot @ 2001-09-10 23:26 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. 0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. @ 2001-09-10 23:26 UTC (permalink / raw) To: comp.lang.ada From: Bob Leif To: Emmanuel Briot et al. Unfortunately, SVG only has a DTD. However, with some work, this DTD can be translated by XML Spy into a schema that does need work. In order to really take advantage of schemas, one must write Ada in XML. This includes setting ranges and controlling the namespaces. Unfortunately, XML Spy 4 is painfully slow on the find and replace operations required to fix the namespaces. Obviously, it should have been written in Ada. XML Spy when it translates does the wonderfully stupid operation of prefixing almost everything. This is equivalent to writing "Ada.Type or Ada.Case. I will gladly send anyone the original XML translation of SVG and my nonworking fixes. In any event, we should work with schemas. -----Original Message----- From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org [mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org]On Behalf Of Emmanuel Briot Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 1:36 AM To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.6 released "David Botton" <David@Botton.com> 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
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* SVG and Ada 95 - Re: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.6 released [not found] ` <007f01c138d8$39293da0$0100a8c0@DBINSPIRON> @ 2001-09-09 3:41 ` David Botton 0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: David Botton @ 2001-09-09 3:41 UTC (permalink / raw) To: comp.lang.ada > I can of course take advantage with Ada already on Win32 of Adobe's SVG > engine using GNATCOM, but it would be very nice to have a cross platform > version. (I better stop here before I start to sound like Robert Leif :-) I have created a stand alone SVG viewer application in the latest release of GWindows (gwindows\samples\svg) using GWindow's ActiveX support. After installing the latest gwindows (don't forget GNATCOM must be installed first) and after downloading and installing the Adobe SVG component (http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/main.html) you can go to the directory gwindows\samples\svg and do a make. Once you open svg_demo you can open the file GWindows.svg You can take a look at the bindings generated by GNATCOM to see that the SVG control gives you increadible power over each element in the SVG file. If I find the time, perhaps I'll see if I can come up with a demo of doing some interesting interactions between Ada code and SVG elements. OK.... so Robert may be on to something with all his XML hype David Botton ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.6 released 2001-09-08 8:16 ` Florian Weimer 2001-09-09 2:36 ` David Botton [not found] ` <007f01c138d8$39293da0$0100a8c0@DBINSPIRON> @ 2001-09-10 14:04 ` Ted Dennison 2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Ted Dennison @ 2001-09-10 14:04 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <87zo86drnb.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer says... > >I think Emmanuel missed a change which is might be important for some >people: XML/Ada is now released under the GPL with GNAT modifications. It is indeed great news that there is now an XML solution we can reccomend to people without reservations. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
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