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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-30 09:38:53 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: Re: Nature of XML (was: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:35:48 +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=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1075484262 86704 80.67.180.195 (30 Jan 2004 17:37:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:37:42 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: ; from Preben Randhol at Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:53:19 +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: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5106 Date: 2004-01-30T20:35:48+03:00 Preben Randhol wrote: > > 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. > > http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?programming+language => "A formal language in which computer programs are written." Well, good for you. As far as I understand from some your previous postings, your profession is chemistry, and not programming. Would you be satisfied by a definition of molecule, from which you are unable to tell reasonably, whether a crystal is simply a single huge molecule or not? Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia