--- Dan Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Correct. The benefit is not as obvious as some seem to think.
> If the goal is format consistency, then what is gained by format
> consistency? It hardly means that you could translate one language
> to another, or have close interrelations between functional
> elements within your DTDs. If that were the case, we wouldn't
> have different programming languages in the first place.
I think you may be misinterpreting the article. The way *I* read it was
that XML-izing the backend representation was a common-denominator that
a vast multitude of code/users/tools already understood.
The frontend objective was to "enrich" the source medium, and possibly
to increase the amount of leverage available for automatic
processing/transmogrifiaction (think CASE tool graphics -> stubs
generators, and reverse-engineering).
XML is proposed (maybe) because the vi/emacs/ cat>foo.pl types can
massage it in ascii.
=Austin
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