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- From: Peter Murray-Rust <peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>
- To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:28:36
At 06:28 11/09/98 -0400, Samuel R. Blackburn wrote:
[...]
>
>When asked why I use XML in my programs, I tell folks
>"what HTML is to text, XML is to data." I've found XML to
>be a wonderful solution to exporting data in an easily
>consumable format. I could care less if a browser knows
>how to consume XML.
I share some of this viewpoint, but I'd go further and say that XML is the
only way forward if we wish to *integrate documents and data*. Properly, I
mean. So you could drop a financial report into an XML tool and it would
give you a spread sheet of all the figures and calculate predictions, etc.
[I have more ideas ...].
I have had a volunteer! We need more...
P.
Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic
net connection
VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary
http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg
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