Re: Bob's letter on V5R4 RPG stuff

["Carel Teijgeler" <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just wondering with the new XML implementation (and not having read the docs 
for the new release entirely)|:

Does this XML implementation support DTDs or XML schemas?

I figure those are [part of the XML standards set.

And imho any parser should work on those DTDs/XML schemas. (not to mention, 
creating an XML document should as well) .

Just curious.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler

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On 2-2-06 at 14:12 Brad Stone wrote:

>Creating is fairly easy with a toolkit (you forgot the eRPG SDK in your list 
><lol>).  But then again, you need the
>knowledge of XML in the first place... no tool gives you that.. That comes 
>through (OH NO!) education and practice!
>
>I didn't catch the original thread, but is part of this XML support going to 
>be native reads, writes, etc to IFS files?
> At a low level that would be a great addition.  And "generic".  
>
>But then again, with a small amount of knowledge, time, and ILE you can write 
>it yourself (or take it from one of the
>many examples published and online).
>
>Parsing as well is only "hard" because it's new to most. Parsing hierarchical 
>structures (or "trees") is something
>new that we just have to learn and RPGers aren't exposed to unless it's 
>through comp sci classes or self study.  A few
>more string BIFs would help.
>
>The final product hopefully will be built so that it will be expandable to 
>future technologies.  In other words, a
>lot of low-level simple task features that when put together make XML handling 
>easier.