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- From: digitome@iol.ie (Sean Mc Grath)
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 19:32:54 +0000
Don't forget the DTD - the key difference between SGML/XML and other interchange
formats IMHO.
The DTD is at once rough sketch. formal blue-print, test-bed and QA check
for perhaps gigabytes of data.
>For data with a long expected
>life-time, XML may actually be a better choice than comma/tab delimited
>file _because_ it is so verbose. If the original architects choose tag
>names which are clear, then when someone approaches the data 10 years
>later, and the original authors are long gone, the chance of this new-comer
>understanding the data format increases significantly. This is what Steven
>Newcomb calls self-descriptive documents. (Steven/Peter, did I get that
>right?)
>
Sean Mc Grath
sean@digitome.com
Digitome Electronic Publishing
http://www.digitome.com
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