XML convertor generator

Steve Oldmeadow smo at jst.com.au
Thu Mar 25 01:23:06 GMT 1999


-----Original Message-----
From: James Robertson <jamesr at steptwo.com.au>
To: xml-dev at ic.ac.uk <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
Date: 25/03/1999 06:38
Subject: Re: XML convertor generator


>At 03:08 25/03/1999 , JPA wrote:
>  | Hello,
>  |
>  | I'm currently working on an xml convertor-generator. When finished, the
>  | tool will, if you take the bother to type the structure of your input
>  | format and mappings on entities and attributes, construct a convertor.
>  | There's no documentation as yet, and some stuff missing (escaping, for
>  | one thing), but if there's enough interest I'll put it on a website as
>  | is.
>  |
>  |
>  | Paul Janssens - paul.janssens at skynet.be
>
>Paul,
>
>Not wishing to rain on your parade, but aren't
>you re-inventing the wheel here?
>
>Will your solution do anything that Perl or
>Omnimark can't already do?


With that sort of attitude XML would never have gotten off the ground.  Perl
and OmniMark???  You must be a masochist.

In reply to the original post:  Paul I would be interested if you are making
the source available and it is in Java.

Steve Oldmeadow
Justice Systems Technologies


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