[SML] Data Markup Language?

[KenNorth]

Leigh Dodds <ldodds at ingenta.com> wrote:

<< Data vs Publishing? How do you define the boundaries there?

Data interchange:
computer -> computer (or application -> application)

The consumer is another application.

Publishing:
computer -> person.

The consumer is a person. The XML is used to render a page for a person to
view.


----- Original Message -----
From: Leigh Dodds <ldodds at ingenta.com>
To: <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 3:41 AM
Subject: RE: [SML] Data Markup Language?


> > If we decide that SML is for data and not for publishing, should we then
> > rename SML to Data Markup Language (DML)?
>
> Data vs Publishing? How do you define the boundaries there? We're commonly
> taking SGML/XML markup of 'publishing' data (abstracts, titles, authors,
> etc)
> and using this data as XML messages ('data') between systems. So we
> seem to be lying on the boundaries here.
>
> > The real answer to this question depends on the audience that is
> interested in
> > SML, I think.  So it would probably be sufficient to refute my
suggestion
> by
> > having a large enough group of people express interest in SML for
> publishing.
>
> What is SML about anyway? What are the benefits beyond reductionism?
> Hard to be interested when you don't know what its for.
>
> Personally I'm waiting to see what APIs might be layered on top of
> SML, and then possibly retrofit them to an XML parser and then be on my
> way...
>
> L.
>
>
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