VRML and XML

[len bullard]

Another area that XML is eminently suitable for in the 
VRML community is in the avatar specification, Universal 
Avatars (distinct from H-Anim).  This proposal requires a 
User Profile instance to be referenced by URL.  Last I 
looked, the user profile was in HTML although the developers 
question the suitability of HTML for this and for good reasons 
since in HTML, this is primarily a set of value pairs enclosed 
in comments.

This is an ideal application for XML.  There are lots 
of these small descriptive documents that are not meant to 
be display-rendered, but serve essentially as data lumps for some 
process.  XML:  Lots of Little DTDs.  There are other over the wire 
data protocols that could use XML.

len bullard
 
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