XML for 3D geometry and objects

[Brandt Dainow]

VML is NOT a proprietary MS system.  It is a W3C submission from Microsoft,
HP, and Visio.  Check out http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-VML

Brandt Dainow
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk [mailto:owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk]On
>Behalf Of
>Tim Bray
>Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 12:37 AM
>To: Betty L. Harvey; Jean-Marc Vanel
>Cc: robertsm at infosphere-inc.corpex.com; Patrick Laug;
>staffan.bergbom at lm.se; hugh at documenta.dk; xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: XML for 3D geometry and objects
>
>
>At 07:12 PM 1/20/00 -1000, Betty L. Harvey wrote:
>>	I think Vector Markup Language is designed to provide 3D
>>graphics.  There is also some work being done to translate
>UML to XML but
>>I haven't been following this effort to see if they are considering
>>3D modelling.
>
>Vector Markup Language (VML) is a Microsoft-proprietary 2-D (2 not 3)
>vector-graphics system that uses XML syntax.  It will soon be replaced
>by SVG, being developed by a group at the W3C (including Microsoft).
>VML is pretty cool and SVG is massively cool.
>
>VRML is Virtual Reality Modeling Language, now an ISO standard, a
>very large & comprehensive VR language.  It uses a textual but non-XML
>encoding format.  VRML has never taken off in the marketplace, opinions
>differ as to why.
>
>The VRML folk are working on a recasting of the language into a
>new version with among other things an XML syntax, go check out
>web3d.org. -Tim
>
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