No, because you have people who want to import data into Excel or a database or data warehouse. You have people who want their reports in PDF or Word or RTF (or LaTEX?) so they can print them out and read them on the flight to the West Coast office. You have some who want graphs, others who want quick statistics. etc., etc., etc.
ASCII is merely a text language (and not a great one at that, Unicode is better), but it doesn't provide any support for formatting, or graphics. HTML includes support for formatting and graphics, but it's a hybrid content / layout / design language and doesn't even do that as well as other solutions might. On top of the fact that different layouts in HTML require entirely new output routines (c.f. Analog reports vs. Report Magic). A better approach is something like XML -> XSLT which can generate different output depending on the programming -- this is not a vote for an XML/XSLT solution, just an example of the functionality that could be achieved. Uh.. or did I miss the tongue-in-cheek? -- Jeremy Wadsack Wadsack-Allen Digital Group Doug Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Yeah, but isn't html (or ascii, for that matter) supposed to be the > universal language? >> I have thought of writing a universal language in which new output formats > ... >> Of course, suggestions are welcome, as always... +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
