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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-29 16:40:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nnx.oleane.net!oleane!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Nature of XML (was: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 01:02:59 +0300 (MSK) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1075414029 30892 80.67.180.195 (29 Jan 2004 22:07:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:07:09 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: ; from Georg Bauhaus at Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:19:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p5 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list List-Id: Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Original-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5076 Date: 2004-01-30T01:02:59+03:00 Georg Bauhaus wrote: > : 3) about XML I'm still not sure. From its popular presentation it does not > : seem a programming language; but SAX somehow changes the picture. > > XML is a well defined term, and the hint it has in its > name is "markup language". Yes, but you did not notic�d the first letter -:) > SAX stands for Simple API for XML parsers, not a programming language. Ok, but constructing an input stream for an automaton is also programming - no less that constructing a transition matrix for it. And SAX produces exactly that - a stream of events... as far as I know. Anyway, you excluded DTDs from your consideration, and that is the most suspicious thing there. DTDs certainly can't be characterized as simply "markup". Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia