Hopefully most fortran compilers will be able to link to C libraries.
Another alternative is to pipe the data through a normalizer as we do
for full SGML. Presumably even in Fortan a parser for normalized XML
will not take more than two days to write.
> Perhaps my experience has been clouded by early exposure to C++, but it
> was extremely common there to find that different compilers had different
> functionality. If this is a non-problem for XML I rejoice.
C++ became a standard only within the last few months. Everything that
was labelled C++ up to then was a valiant attempt to track a moving
target of epic complexity. Even now C++ compilers have wildly divergent
feature sets because implementing one is so hard that it takes years to
get it right (and the requisite years have not yet passed for some
compilers). The important thing to note is that what we have in the
meantime are "not right" (in other words, not true C++ compilers).
Paul Prescod
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