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,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,345c9fcf5a67a99f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-30 22:39:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!teaser.fr!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Robert C. Leif" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: XML & Ada was RE: OT: Microsoft takes on history Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 22:38:32 -0700 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1022823542 32168 137.194.161.2 (31 May 2002 05:39:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 05:39:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Envelope-From: rleif@rleif.com X-Envelope-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25053 Date: 2002-05-30T22:38:32-07:00 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 -- 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" 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. >