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- To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Subject: Re: [xml-dev] bioinformatics, XML
- From: Christian Nentwich <c.nentwich@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
- Date: 01 Feb 2002 11:52:40 +0000
- Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- In-reply-to: <4.2.0.58.20020131203805.01f93c50@pop3.east.ora.com>
- References: <4.2.0.58.20020131203805.01f93c50@pop3.east.ora.com>
> data sets are already huge) and that most often the schemas are poorly
> designed and tools poorly implemented. When schemas and tools are designed
> and implemented well, he approves.
> That last bit doesn't seem too surprising.
Not at all, and in fact it seems a bit odd to blame XML.. We are
currently working on checking the consistency of bioinformatics data,
and I can testify that the schema design is pretty dreadful (the data is
mostly converted ad hoc from relational data as I understand it)
We've basically got files full of CDATA sections that aren't marked up
at all, but still contain structured information (CSV *inside* XML! argh
:)
Christian Nentwich
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