On 21/08/2022 13:07, Michael Kay wrote:
Also BPEL - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Execution_Language
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There are probably plenty of other candidates whose success can be measured by their absence from the discussion :-)On 20 Aug 2022, at 17:54, Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com> wrote: http://docs.oasis-open.org/tamie/xtemp/v1.0/xtemp-v1.0.html
On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 at 17:30, Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> wrote:
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Question: How to represent step-by-step procedures in XML?
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DocBook has <procedure> containing <step>s. If you add sufficient content or attributes to enable the expression of the problem in a target language, almost any reocurring element inside a container will do the job.How to represent in XML the procedure for obtaining the navaid records for an airport?
My favourite was The Last One, distributed as a DOS executable on a 5¼″ floppy with something like PC World, that you could give to your manglement to let them program stuff themselves (and fire all the IT staff). There were programs touted that were "so simple even your manager can use it".That's the holy grail of computer science - ever since COBOL, people have been trying to find a language that was simple enough for managers to understand but precise enough to express all the detail.