It seems that I have uncovered another odd Mailing List problem, the embedded HTML links in the text seem to have been duplicated !!!
Peter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of PeterWAWood Sent: 20 December 2004 11:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] XML support in Rebol In an interview at O'Reilly's OnJava (HYPERLINK "http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/12/15/erh-interview.html"http://www .onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/12/15/erh-interview.html), Elliotte Rusty Harold, THE Java XML man (HYPERLINK "http://www.cafeaulait.org"http://www.cafeaulait.org , HYPERLINK "http://www.cafeconleche.org"http://www.cafeconleche.org) makes a number of good points about XML: "Perl lagged for several years in the XML space because it wasn't yet Unicode-savy, and Larry Wall first had to Unicode-enable Perl before he (or anyone else) could think seriously about supporting XMll." "One of the major impedance mismatches between Java and XML is that a Java char is not in fact a Unicode character; rather it is a UTF-16 code point." "Lisp programmers wear different glasses; they insist on seeing XML as simply S-expressions with angle brackets instead of parentheses, a model that's only marginally closer to reality." "The only proper way to approach XML is by understanding and accepting its unique structure without trying to force it to fit some other paradigm, be that paradigm objects, S-expressions, records and fields, or something else." Of course, XML isn't a patch on Rebol values when it comes to swapping data between different platform. It is however getting to be used more and more often in system-to-system interconnectivity. Is the XML support good enough for Rebol to be used as a "universal system connector"? Regards Peter -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.0 - Release Date: 17/12/2004 -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to rebol-request at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.0 - Release Date: 17/12/2004 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.0 - Release Date: 17/12/2004 -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to rebol-request at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
