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,a656ab9fb38d0ee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-18 17:22:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn14feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!199.45.49.37!cyclone1.gnilink.net!central.cox.net!cox.net!p01!news2.central.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: XML Mandate ? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 01:21:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.central.cox.net 1040260892 68.12.51.201 (Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:21:32 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:21:32 EST Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32064 Date: 2002-12-19T01:21:32+00:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > Navy chief information officer David Wennergren has signed the Navy's > Extensible Markup Language policy, setting the standard for how XML will be > used within the service. XML facilitates information exchange among ... > Hopefully, DoD will be able to enforce this one and Ada will power it. It looks like a policy on how to use XML when it is used, not a mandate on *when* it must be used. One would think they've learned their lesson by now about mandating languages. (OK, I know I'm being foolish there, but still...)