to render XML documents to pure text presentation. There will be
^^^^^^^
converters from XML to HTML, ms word, ps, pdf and any other types of
presentation, suitable for any type of readers.
Meanwhile I stick with ASCII, which I can grep, cut & paste.
1. You can easily get a very well-formed ASCII file from a XML file.
2. With XML, you can not only grep, cut & paste, but also manage and process it.
For example, I can grep XML files for whose level 2 headings containing
the string 'file transfer protocol'. But for ASCII files, this is impossible,
because
1) the computer program does not know where are level 2 headings
2) the string may be split into two lines, grep fails in this situation.
Also I don't think it will be at all practical to drive email
discussions
for ietf drafts if we have to start using XML/HTML/SGML/*ML crap.
BTW, there are RFCs (1125, 1129, etc.) only available in ps format, and some
provided both text and ps versions. ASCII text is not enough to describe
information.
Well it worked fine for 2800+ documents and how many today ?
3060+ today, with many ugly figures in '-', '_', 'o', '/', '\' chars, which
is very difficult to read. In XML, you can even search for figures if
we develop unified Internet/flowchart/etc DTDs.
implementations
of tcp/ip protocols running on how many devices ?
I wonder if anyone can write a readable pure text version of ITU-T P.861.
What P.861 {Objective quality measurement of telephone-band (300-3400 Hz)
speech codecs} has to do with tcp/ip and rfc's ???
Yes, their content of P.861 seems have nothing to do with RFCs.
P.861 is an informational document, like any RFCs. If a RFC face a
similar problem like P.861, I wonder how it can describe it clearly in
pure text.
XML provides a way to describe information in documents, and can be
easily converted to different types of target formats, such as pure text,
pdf, HTML, etc. Again: XML is not for display.
BTW, I hate to pay for ITU documents what are supposed to be public (I
still
remember the years old discussion when they ceased to exist available
for anon ftp)
I hate ITU too. :)
Regards
Jorge.
Regards,
Wang Xianzhu