Computer tools for B-Greek?

Jonathan Robie jwrobie at mindspring.com
Wed Feb 16 20:57:14 EST 2000


I can't let this by without jumping on my personal hobby horse.

Computers have traditionally been dumb when it comes to text. Programmers 
treated text as a black box. If people could understand it, programs didn't 
try hard to understand it, which is why a word processor does not process 
words, it lets you do that.

The Internet has started to change that. In particular, XML is much better 
at flexibly representing information, including document information.

One of the big things that is happening these days is the evolution of 
XML-related standards, including an XML query language activity in the W3C. 
In five years, our ability to flexibly manage a collection of documents 
will be much better than it is now, and our ability to integrate 
traditional data in our documents will also be better.

Of course, I'm an enthusiast. XML is what I do for a living.

Jonathan
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Jonathan Robie
R&D Fellow, Software AG
Jonathan.Robie at SoftwareAG-USA.com



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