RE: [fs] RE: Data tables

2004-10-07 Thread Jon Berndt
> Summarising, the current DAVE-ML gridded table structure is valid XML > but the gridded tables are not as fine-grained as they could be. > However, the current structure seems to me a reasonable balance between > size of the resulting DOM and accessibility of data points within it. > Division int

Re: [fs] RE: Data tables

2004-10-07 Thread Dan Newman
On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 03:53, Giovanni A. Cignoni wrote: > The gridded text is useful for readability for those who like to > look in the XML code using a text editor. Readability that, for > all the rest of DAVE-ML items, is anyway disturbed by the verbosity > of the XML tags. > > If you open the

[fs] RE: Data tables

2004-10-07 Thread Brian, Geoff
o: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nasa. Gov Subject: RE: [fs] RE: Data tables > XML is for exchanging data. The goal of XML is to identify > the relevant items of a set of data and give them a semantics. > We can't consider the same a table of n x m values and > a textual description. I'm afr

RE: [fs] RE: Data tables

2004-10-07 Thread Chen, Alan
> XML is for exchanging data. The goal of XML is to identify > the relevant items of a set of data and give them a semantics. > We can't consider the same a table of n x m values and > a textual description. I'm afraid the "right" thing to do for > an XML format is to eventually go tagged (and, of

Re: [fs] RE: Data tables

2004-10-07 Thread Giovanni A. Cignoni
> I like the format of the gridded table as it is now. It's quite > similar to the way we do it in JSBSim. I had gotten into a discussion > with a more hard-core XML guy recently, > though, and some of the points he made seemed sensible. > But, I wanted to get some opinions from others who are do

RE: Data tables

2004-10-01 Thread Jon Berndt
> The suggestion JSB has made looks to be in accordance with a "pure" XML > or HTML layout, but in the DSTO application I'm involved in we're using > the Xerces-C parser to build our DOM at low level, so the approach of > tagging each table point will result in many more short nodes in the DOM > ra

Re: Data tables

2004-10-01 Thread Dan Newman
The suggestion JSB has made looks to be in accordance with a "pure" XML or HTML layout, but in the DSTO application I'm involved in we're using the Xerces-C parser to build our DOM at low level, so the approach of tagging each table point will result in many more short nodes in the DOM rather than

Re: Data tables

2004-10-01 Thread Bruce Jackson
Title: Re: Data tables At 5:50 PM -0500 9/29/04, Jon S Berndt wrote: I've been looking at the data table format for DAVE-ML, for example:  9.5013e-01  6.1543e-01  5.7891e-02  1.5274e-02  8.3812e-01 1.9343e-01  2.3114e-01  7.9194e-01  3.5287e-01  7.4679e-01  1.9640e-02 6.8222e-01  8.214