XMLized mails (RE: We gotta break up these digests)

[Miloslav Nic]

The XML listing on xml-dev would be excellent, but there would be
definitively problems with its introductions.
There is a partial solution, which would work as I hope from the
beginning. 

Anybody who wishes to say something XMLized can do it, if we agree on
DTD. Then archive can be browsed on daily basis with a Perl script,
which will create valid xml documents from the tagged parts of e-mail.
So if we decide to use e.g. root element XML_DEV
then  following bit of text will be extracted from this message into a
file.

<XML_DEV>
.....
.....
</XML_DEV>

The script should assign to each XML_DEV an unique ID, and use this ID
to name the file. 
I would be probably ideal, if there would be a site, which would offer
this raw data in the form of xml files so everybody could use them as
he/she wishes.


"Steven Livingstone, ITS, SENM" wrote:
> 
> Well, maybe it would be a bit of work.
> XML would just be ideal for doing what we have been talking about though.
> 
> Is anyone working on XML-based email clients? ie. a client which could use a
> DTD/Schema to allow you to send "intelligent" emails? I know a server would
> be the next step, but a client version would be so useful.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Leigh Dodds [SMTP:ldodds at ingenta.com]
> > Sent: 22 September 1999 11:23
> > To:   Steven Livingstone, ITS, SENM
> > Subject:      RE: Summaries please! (RE: We gotta break up these digests)
> >
> > > Wouldn't it be cool if there was some way of intelligently definining
> > what
> > > people write so it would be very simple to get information you were
> > after
> > > ;-)
> >
> > Heh, good point.
> >
> > > ... seriously, has anyone done any kind of work on DTD's or Schema's for
> > > mailing disussions? People would post using these schema's and that way
> > we
> > > could have a simple XML parser which could get the information we wanted
> > > rather than walking through logs etc..
> >
> > Problem is the convenience of using a mail based group is removed (tap
> > your comments into a mail app, use your mail app to read the posts),
> > unless
> > can add support at the back-end to turn a xml post into a standard
> > plain-text
> > email.
> >
> > Problem then is how do you author this correctly? A mail template?
> > Not all mailers allow you to use templates - Outlook 98 is frustratingly
> > difficult to automate in that regard, although *nix based packages might
> > be easier to use.
> >
> > L.
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