Re: [xml-dev] The Granularity of Markup (Re: [xml-dev] InkML)

[Rick Jelliffe <ricko@allette.com.au>]

Bob Foster wrote:
> From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@allette.com.au>
> > Sometime soon we will have standards for parsing data content into
> > typeable subelements:
> > that will make life more straight forward for this kind of
> > graphical-object-description
> > language. Until then, we have to make up our own embedded little
> > languages sometimes.
> >   
>
> Will we? This is a very interesting comment! Sorry to be ignorant, but where
> is this standards work taking place?
Well, for a start, XQuery/XSLT2.XPath2.  See

http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-operators/#string.match

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#regular-expressions
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#format-number
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#format-date

Also, Jeni Tennison's recent work on defineable datatypes is relevant
here too. 
I expect the ISO DSDL effort will be paying attention to this trend, in
some way.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe