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: 103376,47bc849aad30d586 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-31 19:28:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Robert C. Leif" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: A standard package for config files is needed Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 19:27:14 -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 1022898483 71798 137.194.161.2 (1 Jun 2002 02:28:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 02:28:03 +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 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <4519e058.0205310801.7450b475@posting.google.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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:25136 Date: 2002-05-31T19:27:14-07:00 From: Bob Leif To: Ted Dennison et al. Microsoft, SUN, and IBM are converts. For instance, one can import an XML file into Excel. -----Original Message----- From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org [mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org] On Behalf Of Ted Dennison Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 9:02 AM To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed "Robert C. Leif" wrote in message news:... > XML has two advantages over Ada. 1) More users and 2) eventually more > tools. It has the disadvantage, that except for XSL Fo, XML lacks Those are both just theory. I'd like to see numbers on 1, and 2 is a prediction, which could be no better than my World Cup predictions. :-) What we *do* know is right now. Right now, anyone who is going to use this is going to already be using Ada, and there are *far* less tools for dealing with XML files than there are for dealing with CSV files. (Can you tell I'm not an XML convert? :-) ) -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html