XMLAsMetaAsYouWantaBe!

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

We can always just kick up a metalevel and have at. 

"ASCII" as a tag name, anyone?  Syntax independence?

From the Earth Sciences Markup Language: ESML.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<!--  edited with XML Spy v3.5 NT beta 4 build Jan 12 2001
(http://www.xmlspy.com) by sunil (UAH) 
  --> 
<a:ESML xmlns:a="http://www.itsc.uah.edu/ESML/ESML0.4"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.itsc.uah.edu/ESML/ESML0.4
E:\sunil\ESML0.4\Schema\ESML.xsd">
<SyntacticMetaData>
<ascii>
<struct name="lightning" occurs="*">
<ascii>
<datum name="mo" format="%2d/" /> 
<datum name="dd" format="%2d/" /> 
<datum name="yy" format="%2d" /> 
<datum name="hh" format="%2d:" /> 
<datum name="mi" format="%2d:" /> 
<datum name="ss" format="%2d" /> 
<datum name="lat" format="%7.3f" /> 
<datum name="lon" format="%9.3f" /> 
<datum name="signal" format="%8.1f" /> 
<datum name="mult" format="%3d" /> 
</ascii>
</struct>
</ascii>
</SyntacticMetaData>
</a:ESML>

They also have a ContentMetaData tag with 

<DataFormat>Binary</DataFormat> 

and so on.

Len 
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