RE: Ada Developer's Cooperative License (was) Re: Market pressures for more reliable software

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

From: Bob Leif
To: Colin Paul Gloster et al.
Although, it is quite correct that, "XML turned out to be a "very fat"
representation, i.e., the files get rather large (consider this a European
understatement", Microsoft Excel can now function in XML mode. This and the
rush of the other vendors to XML proves that XML is here to stay. I might
note that my own interest, Analytical Cytology, employs very large data
files. The simple solution for large binary data is to create an XML binary
form based upon an already existing data type. The description of the data,
patient, instrument, etc. can be left in somewhat bloated XML text files.

The important facts are: 1) XML is controlled by the World Wide Web
Consortium, W3C. 2) XML includes sufficient capabilities for a portable GUI
and printing. and 3) XML is a reasonable standard will a good mapping to
Ada. I will note that control by W3C www.w3.org is infinitely preferable to
proprietary standards imposed by companies such as Microsoft, SUN, or IBM.

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org]On Behalf Of Colin Paul Gloster
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:12 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: Ada Developer's Cooperative License (was) Re: Market
pressures for more reliable software


Bob Leif said:
"[..] or if I am given the opportunity during a workshop on "Creating a
Symbiotic Relationship Between XML and Ada". [..] The second assumption
is that an ASIS [..]"

On SIGADA-ASIS@ACM.org in the thread "Re: proposed ASIS-based tool"
did Erhard Pl�dereder not claim in his email timestamped
Thu, 3 May 2001 18:08:24 +0200 :
"I have some limited exposure to an actual implementation using XML in a
context where a semantically attributed intermediate language is mapped onto
XML.

XML turned out to be a "very fat" representation, i.e., the files get
rather large (consider this a European understatement -- it was barely
ok to do a proof-of-concept; a tool of practical use it was not in this
context)

[..]"? Perhaps XML is not practical in other contexts too.