[exprla-devel] RE: [XPL] Instruction Set Architecture in XML?

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--- In xpl-dev@y..., "Richard Anthony Hein" <935551@i...> wrote:
Basically, groves use a name-value pair property set which makes it 
simple
to model schemas for non-XML data sources, such as an mpeg, or any 
other
data type.  You can take those property sets, in theory, and compile 
them
into a header file.  So we can treat the given media as an object, 
and pass
it along quite effectively.  Using the DOM is complicated for media 
types
like MPEGs (it can't really be modeled by a hierarchy - it isn't that
'XMaLeble').  But if we want to pass information about objects like 
this, we
need some way of effectively describing them.  Groves, and the 
property
sets, in theory, is the best known way to do this.

Now, I do say "in theory":  Jonathan is looking deeper into groves, 
and I am
trying my best to understand it all.

If you check on Jonathan's web site, he has an annotated copy of Paul
Prescod's paper on Groves.  It's not overly long, so check it out:  -
http://www.warehouse.net/saski/groves_annotated_1.0.html
Jonathan understands this stuff a lot better than I do.

HTH

Richard A. Hein

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Sam Hunting [mailto:sam_hunting@y...]
  Sent: June 30, 2000 11:46 AM
  To: xpl@e...
  Cc: saski@w...
  Subject: Re: [XPL] Instruction Set Architecture in XML?



  Trying to get up to speed on this list, therefore please forgive
  redundancy--

  --- Jonathan Burns <saski@w...> wrote:
  > Listen, did you get my long post a few days ago on what and when 
to
  > compile in XPL? I did my best to explain that time and memory 
savings
  > from compiling XML processing were likely to be lost in the larger
  > inefficiencies of the system, unless heroic measures were taken to
  > optimize the latter.

  Jonathan, I didn't get this mail. Can you repost?

  Richard --

  I'm reasonably familiar with ISO 10744, but not with compiler 
issues at
  all. Can you summarize why you want to use groves for XPL?

  Thanks.

  Sam Hunting

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