[exprla-devel] Re: [xpl] The gist of it...

[reid_spencer <ras...@re...>]

--- 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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