Re: [ode] Parsing XML


Peter Elliott (axit@paradise.net.nz)
Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:56:38 +1300


At 16:05 13/01/00 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr> wrote:
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>> http://www.zeigermann.de/xtal.html
>
>It depends on Java, which has few free implementations (and, most of the
times, they fail with the typical Java program you find on the Net, which
was tested only with non-free tools like the JDK).
>There are many more XML tools than this one!
>
Ah yes
This, indeed, is one of XML's rubs. That most of the tools seem to be java
tools and not really all that OS independant either. Sigh. Do you, does
anyone, know of any that have been written in C / C++ ? Apart from
J.Clark's that is.

But isn't all our talk of tools, tho interesting, besides the point? [Not
having a go at you here Stephane, ok?] The thing is this list seems to be
pulling in directions at odds with each other and, while the debates within
these streams are interesting enough, until common purpose is arrived at
that's all that will happen - discuss discuss and more discuss.

Not what a lot of us, in following the 'call' here from it's initial
cross-posted flurry, were looking to do. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot
that needs to be talked thru and _acted_ on, but lets get things in
perspective and, as Deb Richardson said, the right way round.
cheers
pre
ps: still like to know about those tools though ;->
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