Re: the uses of XML?

[Doug Loss <dloss@csrlink.net>]

Bruno Vernier wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 11:07:49PM -0800, Matt Wimer wrote:
> 
> > I am just wondering what the planned uses of
> > XML are going to be?
> >
> > Is is going to be used as a data exchange format?
> > Or, is is being used as a data storage format?
> 
> you necessarily choose between:

> 2. store in some private format and feature import and export in EDUML
>    (advantage: freedom for programmer, possible gain in speed;
>    disadvantage: can't work simultaneously with other EDUML compliant
>    programs due to delay before data is exported again)

I've been poking around the Casbah Project website
<http://www.ntlug.org/casbah/> lately.  They have an interesting
architectural design and appear to have thought through much of this. 
We should probably look over what they're doing and see if we can use
some or all of it as "backend" to our work.  As Roger once said, use and
adapt as much as you can from already-developed software.

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