Re: don't invent your own xml languages

[Alexandre Poitras]

I think it's depend of the case. The article seems to refer to XML used over a network as a protocol. I agree with the position in this case. In Lenya, the XML is used to capture knowledge and his structure wich is precisely what XML and RDF were made for. I think you should look at it this way: Would you not design a DB model for a new application? Finding a general language to fit your exact use case is kind of impossible if the data are domain-specialised. Just my 2 cents.

On 1/10/06, Michael Wechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote:

> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/01/08/No-New-XML-Languages
>
> argues against the many one-off xml languages in lenya.
>
> hopefully we can take these trade-offs into account next time we look
> at them.
>
It certainly makes sense to look at existing XML languages and use
them if possible, but there are often plenty of reasons not to
take existing ones (e.g. NewsML and NITF come to my mind) and sometimes
one creates an XML language because there doesn't exist one at the time.

Michi

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