Hi Leonard,
Good post!
You are right xml doesn't work for raster bits, but it sure is nice to have
xml metadata with the ability to embed raster rather than ntif, tfw, geotiff
parameter headaches on top of the innumerable raster variations. XML also
won't work for audio/video bits but again it is a very nice framework for
wrapping the binary bit/streams with accessible metadata.
>> .pdf .shp .swf .dxf are published formats but hard to read/process
>>
> For whom? Using what tools?
You mean one set of tools for .pdf, + another for .shp, + another for .swf,
+ another for .dxf , + .dwg, + .dwf, + .e00, + .tab, + .... ? unfortunately
the series is infinite and not asymptotic.
I guess I'm too old to learn all the old tricks let alone the new ones :) I
believe MS must be tired too, at least they're steering toward open water
XML.
thanks
randy
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Leonard Rosenthol
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 4:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [svg-developers] Re: Why is being in XML better? (was Re:
Adobe/Macromedia)
> Perhaps because of Sax, Xerces, Xalan, JDom, SOAP, MSXML, XSLT,
> XPath .... or perhaps simply because I can read the file and grab what I
> want/need?
>
More specifically, because you can use the tools you ALREADY KNOW...
There are similar tools for many of those things for other formats -
you just don't know about them ;).
> I am myself wondering whether it makes that much difference how
> something becomes a standard w3c, ANSI, ISO, or common use, just as long
> as I can read it, process it, and hand it down stream.
>
Agreed.
> XML helps in the
> reading/processing and open standards help in the passing downstream.
>
Yes and no.
I've seen XML grammars that are more complicated than the
alternative, thus making it harder to read/process...
> .pdf .shp .swf .dxf are published formats but hard to read/process
>
For whom? Using what tools?
Leonard
-----
To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-or-
visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my
membership"
----
Yahoo! Groups Links
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~-->
AIDS in India: A "lurking bomb." Click and help stop AIDS now.
http://us.click.yahoo.com/9QUssC/lzNLAA/TtwFAA/1U_rlB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~->
-----
To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-or-
visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my
membership"
----
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
