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 standard w3c, ANSI, ISO, or common use, just as long as
I can read it, process it, and hand it down stream. XML helps in the
reading/processing and open standards help in the passing downstream. So
Firefox and Opera adopting svg is great for passing vectors along as is the
IE ASV.
Xaml, Metro will be xml so I can probably read and process but only
pass downstream to part of the MS world that upgrades, but as XML it can at
least be XSLTd to the other part of the world.
.pdf .shp .swf .dxf are published formats but hard to read/process
though easy enough to hand downstream since they are common usage standards.
I imagine developers like the fact that XML makes reading/processing
easier.
Thanks
randy
-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:27 PM
To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com
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Subject: Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)
[The following statement is somewhat heretical on this mailing list, but
that's never stopped me before ;)]
> Adobe hires smart people, they know that MS Xaml/Metro is their immediate
> threat, but I'm sure they are also wondering how to reconcile flash/pdf
> with svg/fo. In the end they have to know XML wins, so there is little
> incentive to abandon svg, though they may be tempted to adapt it ala Xaml.
> Any which way XML makes it an open world from a developer's point of view.
>
Why does a file format/specification simply being based on XML make
it better than one that isn't?
Let's take Metro and PDF, for example - since you mentioned both
above.
Metro/XPS is a published (open?) specification from Microsoft that
just happens to be based on XML. However, it is controlled by MSFT, though
they have SUGGESTED publication by OASIS - which is different than
acceptance via a standards-body process.
PDF is a published (open?) specification originally from Adobe that
is not based on XML. However, PDF has been adopted as the basis for a
series of standards from the International Standards Organization (ISO)
including ISO 15930, PDF/X and ISO 19005, PDF/A. That makes it TOTALLY
OPEN and INTERNATIONALLY approved.
What more do you want?
Leonard
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