Dear John > Could you say a bit more about this requirement? In particular, "plain text > with nothing but the list in it" and "machine-readable" aren't entirely > contradictory, but may preclude more complex representations that are > appropriate, no? (I'm not an expert in gazetteer representation, but being > able to represent e.g., hierarchies of metadata gets tricky, I'm guessing. > Is something like XML or RDF close enough to plain text to meet this > goal/requirement?
The main problem I was getting at is that a discursive HTML document is difficult for a program to use! A table in XML, for instance, would be OK, I agree. If it were primarily in XML, it would be helpful to provide a more human-readable version as well (e.g. the discursive HTML form). A plain-text file has the advantage of being both human- and machine-readable, doesn't it. Best wishes Jonathan _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
