Re: VRML and XML

len bullard (cbullard@hiwaay.net)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 16:36:08 -0600

Another area that XML is eminently suitable for in the
VRML community is in the avatar specification, Universal
Avatars (distinct from H-Anim). This proposal requires a
User Profile instance to be referenced by URL. Last I
looked, the user profile was in HTML although the developers
question the suitability of HTML for this and for good reasons
since in HTML, this is primarily a set of value pairs enclosed
in comments.

This is an ideal application for XML. There are lots
of these small descriptive documents that are not meant to
be display-rendered, but serve essentially as data lumps for some
process. XML: Lots of Little DTDs. There are other over the wire
data protocols that could use XML.

len bullard

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