Re: [xml-dev] Evaluation Criteria for Markup Languages

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Cox, Bruce scripsit:

> As Michael said, it's a question of finding the level of abstraction
> that everyone can agree to for exchange purposes while still supporting
> the local needs of a national office.  It's challenging.

Have you looked at OASIS XNAL 2.0
<http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/ciq.html> for the name and
address parts?  It should be powerful enough for anyone.

-- 
John Cowan   cowan@ccil.org  http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Most languages are dramatically underdescribed, and at least one is
dramatically overdescribed.  Still other languages are simultaneously
overdescribed and underdescribed.  Welsh pertains to the third category.
        --Alan King