XML & Ada was RE: OT: Microsoft takes on history

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: Marin David Condic et al.
DTDs do not resemble Ada. I believe that we should avoid them. Schemas
do resemble collections of Ada data types. I believe that we should
embrace schemas. Extensible Stylesheet Language, XSL, is an incredibly
powerful formatting language, which looks like it will be retrofitted
with a schema. Scalable Vector Graphics, SVG, was created independently
of XSL. However, the new specification states: 

" 2.2. Compatible, Consistent and Extensible
SVG 1.1/1.2/2.0 must be as compatible as possible with the SVG 1.0
specification. 
All elements and attributes should be consistent within SVG, and with
external specifications such as CSS and XSL. This includes the naming of
elements, the set of available attributes and the style properties that
can be used on elements."

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org] On Behalf Of Marin David Condic
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 7:12 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft takes on history

>From what I've seen, I'm not sure why someone would want to use DTDs if
they
had XSL. It seems that DTDs can't describe data with nearly the same
accuracy and that the whole thing is rather clumsy & looks like it was
cobbled together out of spare parts. Am I missing something? I'd think
that
doing anything to mix up Ada and XML ought to go straight to XSL and
ignore
the existence of DTDs.

MDC
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Marin David Condic
Senior Software Engineer
Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
e-Mail:    marin.condic@pacemicro.com


"Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1022740563.12528.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
>
> Concerning FrameMaker, I am about to receive version 7, which now can
> create XML DTDs and cascading style sheets. The next step is a
document
> processor that uses schema and XSL. Eventually, the replacement for
PDF
> should be an XML version of a MHT file. The bottom line is that the
GUI
> will be a browser application.
>