--- In xpl-dev@y..., Michael Lauzon <ce940@f...> wrote:
Yes, Aly, we have a website...on Tripod (http://expel2.tripod.com/);
but
I am trying to get our group a free homepage on Linux Start
(http://www.linuxstart.com/); though I wonder how we can go about
getting
a page on Source Forge (http://www.sourceforge.net/). Johnathan is
using:
<comment>This is a comment</comment>
instead of:
<!-- This is a comment -->
Because comment between angle brackets is how we are going to be
commenting XPL. :)
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Robert A Hopkins wrote:
> Are we doing a wish list as a new mailing list as a convenient way
to
> index items? I think it's a lot of work to plough through email
archives,
> and I don't see how there's enough volume on this list to justify
> splitting it. What I had in mind was more like a simple html page
with
> literally a list of ideas, and a link or two if anyone wants to
provide
> more information. Is this do-able? Maintainable? (I have mail lists
> coming out of my ears.) Michael, do we have a web site?
>
> Jonathan (11 May):
> "Would you like to see
> the addition example re-expressed using simplifications like that?"
>
> I think the more we express & re-express this language that doesn't
exist
> yet, the more fluent we will become. (What does "<stdout>" mean?
And
> "<stdin>"?) (Jonathan, is there a reason you're using the form
> "<comment></comment>" rather than "<!--comment here...-->"?)
>
> Jonathan:
> <if>
> <false>
> <verify>
> mylist
> </verify>
> </false>
>
> abort <comment> Handy things, macros. </comment>
> </if>
>
> I like this. I think if I would argue for anything it would be for
> rigorously applying one of the fundamental concepts of xml, and
that is
> of containment. Elements are containers into which you stick
things. So
> the "if" container (or "conditional" or
> "what-the-heck-is-if-then-called-in-formal-logic" container holds a
> container for the condition to be tested and a container for the
action
> to be taken. Everything else is an attribute.)
>
> Jonathan:
> <comment>
> Here we define a program variable to contain
> a list of integers.
> <comment>
>
> <variable type=intList>
> <name>
> mylist
> </name>
> </variable>
>
> <comment>
>
> Somehow I'm not comfortable with the idea of a container called
> "variable". How about "<xpl:variable-type name=intList>"
>
> As for the substance of what you're saying, I'm still working on
it. As I
> understand it, the gist of it is that you want to define a complex
data
> type in a DTD rather than in some sort of TYPE statement. (With
namespace
> we can link your variable to a different DTD. Name it something on
the
> order of "int:intlist", then it or any int:variable would belong to
a
> different namespace and different DTD than the default xmlns:xpl
(it would
> be linked to xmlns:int). That obviates my previous suggestion of
> "xpl:variable-type".)
>
> ps: Oh my! I just saw what eGroups does to angle brackets in the
> archives! ("View source" works.)
>
> pps: Don't be alarmed, Jonathan, I'm still working on the (larger)
gist of
> it.
>
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