Re: Opportunities for XML-DEV
Bob Parks (bobp@lightlink.com)
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:09:07 -0500
Peter wrote:
>What we have discovered is that there are very few XML documents currently
>being delivered over the WWW. For many of us who see XML as a communication
>medium *and philosophy* this is a pity. I think it makes it harder to
>develop tools to work with specs like XLink, XPointer, Namespaces because
>we don't have example documents to work with. And this is cyclic, because
>those creating documents don't have tools to create documents with and
>don't have people who can read them. So, at the moment we can only talk
>about those applications.
I have a 50,000 headword dictionary and thesaurus of English that can
fairly easily be converted to a simple XML representation. Would
availability of this text for research help stimulate application
development? What sort of applications?
Bob Parks