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- From: Clark Evans <clark.evans@manhattanproject.com>
- To: "'xml-dev@ic.ac.uk'" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 02:09:47 +0000
David Megginson wrote:
> > 2) Leave valid XML/HTML alone if possible.
>
> Wrong -- or, to put it differently, it should leave content with
> text/html and text/xml alone, but it should not try to recognise
> markup in text/plain.
In theory I agree, however, practical circumstances
dictate otherwise. :)
I have been showing associates (end users) how to
markup their e-mail using XML. I hope to classify
e-mail according to the markup contained within,
and use it to update a database with such information.
Furthermore, I have found so far, that my end users
are not "resisting" XML as much as I would have thought.
As long as I stay practical, and explain clearly
that the tags are used to tell the computer program
how to deal with their information, everything goes well.
Thus, I intend to use the e-mail to populate a
database, based upon it's contents. Anyway, I would
like to proceed with this experiment to see how
it works in reality. Eventually I picture an
structure-aware-e-mailer that replaces traditional
forms based processing with a more stream oriented
approach. The editor would allow multiple DTD's
to be validated against their mail before they
send it. I see this as logical evolution from
centralized forms based processing to a more
flexibie, distributed information system.
For now, I can tell my end-users not to use < > and &
unless they are doing markup, but my biggest problem
so far is the darn e-mailers which use > to mark
e-mail that is forwarded... I'd love to change the
character to |
Anyway, hope this makes sence. Comments?
> > 3) Add a <mail> </mail> and <p> </p> for non-xml
> > non-html mail.
>
> I don't think that adding <p>...</p> is a good idea -- if the body of
> the message is text/plain, then it should be treated as a blob of
> text.
Perhaps you are right.. although I like what Parand did:
Parand Tony Darugar wrote:
> > The rewrite program would:
> >
> > 0) Transform reserved characters > < & into
> > > < & and handle other trivial
> > conversions such as this.
>
> Does this. For the main message, I wrap it in a
> big CDATA[] and leave the reserved stuff unchanged.
>
> > 1) Transform the 'headers' into XML structure.
>
> Does this also. See example output below.
>
> <MAIL_MESSAGE>
> <HEADER>
<snip/>
> </HEADER>
>
> <BODY><![CDATA[
> Hope everyone likes it. We had to make it under 10k which restricted us
> quite a bit.
> ]]></BODY>
> </MAIL_MESSAGE>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
This is very nice.
> I promised someone I'd package it and put it somewhere
> on the web months ago, but I've procrastinated. I guess I
> should really do that.
Wonderful. Please do.
Best,
Clark
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