Re: To get things started.... Data formats..

[christopher ferris <chris.ferris@east.sun.com>]

I have to concur with Mike's observations. 

Cheers,

Chris

Mike Rawlins wrote:
> 
> Sorry, but this seems to me to be verging on the silly.
> 
> David Lyon wrote to Betty Harvey's reply <snipped>:
> 
> >
> > > There is a serious problem with using the '$'.  This signifys an
> > > entity within a dataflow.  Any parser who sees the $ will be
> > > looking for the closing delimiter ';', i.e., $myentity;.  If
> > > you have <date$> it is going to confuse the parser beyond
> > > belief.
> >
> > So why not fix the problem ?
> >
> > Why perpetuate it forever more ?
> >
> > Why can't ebXML be better than previous attempts at XML ?
> 
> ebXML decided to adopt a sound software engineering practice of re-using
> existing work whenever possible.  In this case it was XML (based on ISO standard
> SGML).  "Fixing" SGML or XML are clearly not now nor were they ever within the
> scope of our efforts.  Making such suggestions only damages your credibility
> within this group.
> 
> --
> Michael C. Rawlins, Rawlins EC Consulting
> www.rawlinsecconsulting.com
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