[svg-developers] Re: Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-12 Thread Jim Ley
"Garry Haywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was talking about why is XML is better for SVG than any other mark- > up, yet your arguments focuses purely on non-human advantages, disr

[svg-developers] Re: Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-12 Thread Jim Ley
"Garry Haywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > XML is better because because it makes for interoperability, and in > the new business world metricification neccesitates interoperability. > And because XML has validation, it scores highly for interoperability. The p

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-09 Thread Chris Lilley
On Friday, December 9, 2005, 7:32:48 PM, Jim wrote: JL> "ayrton_senna_lives_ok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message JL> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "Leonard Rosenthol" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 6. It is relaxing for humans to write. So orderly. >> >>

[svg-developers] Re: Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-09 Thread Jim Ley
"ayrton_senna_lives_ok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "Leonard Rosenthol" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 6. It is relaxing for humans to write. So orderly. > > 7. It is easy for humans to edit. So free of overheads. The m

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-08 Thread Randy George
thanks randy -Original Message- From: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard Rosenthol Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 4:17 PM To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [svg-developers] Re: Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromed

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-08 Thread Ronan Oger
On Thursday 08 December 2005 23:17, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > >   Perhaps because of Sax, Xerces, Xalan, JDom, SOAP, MSXML, XSLT, > > > > XPath   or perhaps simply because I can read the file and grab what > > I want/need? > >   More specifically, because you can use the tools you A

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-08 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
> Perhaps because of Sax, Xerces, Xalan, JDom, SOAP, MSXML, XSLT, > XPath or perhaps simply because I can read the file and grab what I > want/need? > More specifically, because you can use the tools you ALREADY KNOW... There are similar tools for many of those things

[svg-developers] Re: Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-08 Thread Randy George
Hi Leonard, Why is being in XML better? Perhaps because of Sax, Xerces, Xalan, JDom, SOAP, MSXML, XSLT, XPath or perhaps simply because I can read the file and grab what I want/need? I am myself wondering whether it makes that much difference how something becomes a standar