Re: XML hot from the oven

Peter Murray-Rust (Peter@ursus.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 21 Mar 1997 23:21:50 GMT

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In message <199703192108.NAA29825@boethius.eng.sun.com> bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM (Jon Bosak) writes:
> I pointed to the GET method for accessing the XML on docs.sun.com
> because I was assuming that an experimenter would next want to
> implement some kind of client to handle the data stream. If all you
> want to do is view the output, then you can just feed the equivalent
> URLs, e.g.
>
> http://docs.sun.com/ab2/@xmlToc
> http://docs.sun.com/ab2/alluser/ADVOSUG/@xmlChunk
>
> to any ordinary Web browser and download the results to a file.

Or you could use an XML tool as a helper application for a browser. This
could be done in a .mailcap file or by configuring the browser. For JUMBO
the .mailcap file looks like
text/xml; java pmr.chemime.ChemTree %s chemical/x-cml
and this should be able to deal with Jon's Shakespeare. (Unfortunately
JUMBO doesn't deal with all XML constructs yet).

P.
Note, of course, that the default view of any XML browser may not be
very informative. PLAY comes out very well in JUMBO, but the Solaris
docs would need subclasses written for several of the elements.

-- Peter Murray-Rust, domestic net connection Virtual School of Molecular Sciences http://www.vsms.nottingham.ac.uk/

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