Re: W3C XML Processing working group

2006-01-02 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Gianugo Rabellino wrote: It strikes me how, in early 2006, people are still thinking that another XML domain-specific language is the way to go. We are all learning the hard way how the XML verbiage has been useless and, to some extents, detrimental: from Jelly onwards

Re: W3C XML Processing working group

2006-01-02 Thread Jason Johnston
Gianugo Rabellino wrote: On 1/1/06, Michael Wechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not that much interested into yet another DSL expressed in XML, and I don't feel alone at all. Actually I'd much rather drift towards a programmatic pipeline API. what do you mean by a programmatic pipeline

Re: W3C XML Processing working group

2006-01-01 Thread Michael Wechner
Gianugo Rabellino wrote: On 12/30/05, Sylvain Wallez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, The W3C recently set up an XML Processing working group[1] whose primary goal is to define an XML processing language (i.e. pipelines). Wow, innovation at work! :-) AFAIU the group's direction

Re: W3C XML Processing working group

2006-01-01 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
On 1/1/06, Michael Wechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not that much interested into yet another DSL expressed in XML, and I don't feel alone at all. Actually I'd much rather drift towards a programmatic pipeline API. what do you mean by a programmatic pipeline API? Uhm, part of the

Re: W3C XML Processing working group

2006-01-01 Thread Ross Gardler
Gianugo Rabellino wrote: On 12/30/05, Sylvain Wallez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, The W3C recently set up an XML Processing working group[1] whose primary goal is to define an XML processing language (i.e. pipelines). ... My impression is that what this WG will end up defining yet

W3C XML Processing working group

2005-12-30 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Hi all, The W3C recently set up an XML Processing working group[1] whose primary goal is to define an XML processing language (i.e. pipelines). AFAIU the group's direction is not to reinvent something new, but to standardize what already exists, taking as inputs two pipeline languages that

Re: W3C XML Processing working group

2005-12-30 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
On 12/30/05, Sylvain Wallez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, The W3C recently set up an XML Processing working group[1] whose primary goal is to define an XML processing language (i.e. pipelines). Wow, innovation at work! :-) AFAIU the group's direction is not to reinvent something new, but