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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham 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 11:13:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!priapus.visi.com!orange.octanews.net!news.octanews.net!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Nature of XML (was: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:13:09 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PVV Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: k-083152.nt.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1075489989 27011 129.241.83.152 (30 Jan 2004 19:13:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:13:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5118 Date: 2004-01-30T19:13:09+00:00 List-Id: On 2004-01-30, Alexandre E. Kopilovitch wrote: >> >> 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? What on earth are you talking about? SAX is an API for XML processing. This one is event based. It is not a transformation tool per se but you can use it to generate XML -- "Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming language."