Re: Three Access Language Paradigms

Derek Denny-Brown (ddb@criinc.com)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 11:18:03 -0800


At 05:06 PM 11/19/97 +1100, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>After the XML document has been parsed and groved, and auto links
embedded, and transformations and stylesheets applied, and then
>sent to some output device, that is the publication.

what if the output device is a network interface for sending it to a client
for interpretation? i.e. it is never intended to be rendered on screen or
paper? One place I would like to sue XML is for application configuration
files. When does that become a publication?

-derek

Derek E. Denny-Brown II || ddb@criinc.com
"Reality is that which, || Seattle, WA USA
when you stop believing in it, || WWW/SGML/HyTime/XML
doesn't go away." -- P. K. Dick || Java/Perl/Scheme/C/C++