Hello I have followed the debates about VRML/X3D for weeks, and it's time to speak. The aim of our project is to make botanical data available on Internet, ...
Jean-Marc Vanel
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Mar 1, 2000 8:39 am
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... That's right. IMO, the whole point of the 'abbreviated forms' that have been moaned about recently is so that almost any *existing* XML file can 'become'...
Mark Birbeck
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Mar 1, 2000 9:58 am
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... I use it because - as I've said - I think it is the most interesting feature of RDF. ... I'd argue that the model is OK, it's the implementation that is...
Mark Birbeck
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Mar 1, 2000 10:03 am
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... Well the thing is, if you go 3D from the start, you get 2D for free. Using a 3D system for 2D isn't that much harder than using 2D. ... This is true, but...
Bill dehOra
Wdehora@...
Mar 1, 2000 10:28 am
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... Just a minor point, but I think you've misunderstood what David said in his post: he was talking about a Java *interface*, not a Java *class*. An interface...
Vilya Harvey
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Mar 1, 2000 12:12 pm
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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote, ... That's true, but to be honest I don't care. Importing in '*' form isn't good practice because it hides dependency structure....
Miles Sabin
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Mar 1, 2000 12:12 pm
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... I'm slightly surprised that you need the client to create XML to send to the server. Wouldn't it be easier (and use less bandwidth) to send the user data...
Richard Lanyon
rgl@...
Mar 1, 2000 12:15 pm
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I thought about this a little more last night, and there are some advantages to using XML on the client side. If you want to use a form to collect multiple...
Paul R. Brown
prb@...
Mar 1, 2000 4:05 pm
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... Greg surmises: When I started "certain difficulty" it was certainly not willed to split anything. As you say David, "the network is what we need". And the...
Greg FitzPatrick
gf@...
Mar 1, 2000 4:27 pm
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Please note that the message below is not from me, though in this case I'd love it if it were. Please reply to Ron directly with questions as noted in the...
Simon St.Laurent
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Mar 1, 2000 4:37 pm
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* Laura Neitzel ... As far as I know, yes. Microsoft's XML parser also claims to be able to validate against XML schemas, but other than that I don't know of...
Lars Marius Garshol
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Mar 1, 2000 4:37 pm
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... Thanks for the support. I've always considered import package.* to be the sign of either a) a novice (forgivable); or b) expremely sloppy coding. Mind...
David Megginson
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Mar 1, 2000 4:50 pm
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* David Brownell ... Hmmm. Given that the order really only has lexical significance I would say there are three alternatives: - specify lexical order (kinda...
Lars Marius Garshol
larsga@...
Mar 1, 2000 5:17 pm
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Jean-Marc: We have similar needs in our project. For example, we may wish to employ CML (Chemical Markup Language) in the rendering of molecules being rendered...
Paul Fishwick
fishwick@...
Mar 1, 2000 6:38 pm
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... Here is a small JavaScript library that serializes a certain kind of tree into XML and sends it in a hidden field. There is no XML parser: I figure that it...
Rick JELLIFFE
ricko@...
Mar 1, 2000 8:31 pm
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I noticed in the list archives that there was some discussion last year about converting XPath expressions to SQL queries. Specifically, my interest would be...
Matthew Gertner
matthew@...
Mar 1, 2000 8:45 pm
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... Hmmm ... editor functionality seems to need pretty much a tokenized access to XML text, which is way below what SAX exposes. I've seen editor requirements...
David Brownell
david-b@...
Mar 1, 2000 9:56 pm
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... I'm not so strongly concerned about ContentHandler since javac give a sufficient error message for a competent programmer to ferret out (though it's still...
David Wang
dwang@...
Mar 1, 2000 10:55 pm
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... No. - Dave p.s. Speaking only for myself and my alter egos! You seemed to want plural responses ... ;-) ...
David Brownell
david-b@...
Mar 1, 2000 10:58 pm
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... Yes, I'm pretty sure XSLT could generate the architectural document (if it can't, then something is wrong with XSLT!) The difference is in the word...
Arjun Ray
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Mar 1, 2000 11:03 pm
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... That's my inclination too. But I'm not sure it'd be good to require it. ... I think it is: The SAX parser will invoke this method only once, and it will...
David Brownell
david-b@...
Mar 1, 2000 11:29 pm
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Arnold, Curt wrote ... Another possibility: don't re-invent the wheel. The people writing standards over in SQL and ODBC-land have defined interval data types...
KenNorth
KenNorth@...
Mar 2, 2000 12:43 am
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... Right. It accomplishes what makes XML attractive over any other string and type def'd language: the agreement to stick with the lex and API brings the...
Len Bullard
cbullard@...
Mar 2, 2000 12:47 am
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We have plans to address that in Castor. We already have the capability to get from database to XML (or Java) using OQL queries, and use XML Schema to create a...
Assaf Arkin
arkin@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:02 am
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... Keep in mind that there are many flavors of XML schema's floating around right now. Microsoft supports the XDR flavor that they rolled themselves, but...
KenB
KenB@...
Mar 2, 2000 2:41 am
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Common XML: a good thing SML: still skeptical, but open-minded OpenMarkup.org: could be a good thing, but the Web site is currently content-free -Chris -- ...
Christopher R. Maden
crism@...
Mar 2, 2000 5:09 am
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XML Power Panel at Software Development 2000 (San Jose, California) http://www.sdexpo.com "XML's Role in Enterprise Computing and E-Commerce" San Jose...
KenNorth
KenNorth@...
Mar 2, 2000 7:55 am
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... The seed, VRML, has existed for years, and has not met the success of the T model ! The current X3D seems merely a word-for-word translation of VRML97 in...
Jean-Marc Vanel
jmvanel@...
Mar 2, 2000 9:30 am
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Hi, I am using XT and xml4j to process xsl stylesheets. But I get the error : 2: Attribute, "xmlns:xsl", is not declared in element, "xsl:stylesheet". I was...
Abhishek Srivastava
abisheks@...
Mar 2, 2000 9:32 am
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... <snip> The thought occurred to me while reading this thread that another potentially useful application of this trick is calling services using XML-RPC...
