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Human Markup Language

Posted by michael on from the <human>-</human> dept.

emc3 writes: "This article at InternetNews says that OASIS, the XML interoperability consortium, has announced the formation of a committee to develop Human Markup Language, 'to promote a specification for conveying human characteristics through XML.' The idea is to codify psychological, emotive, cultural, and physical characteristics in a standardized way. They say that the most obvious application would be for describing phsyical characteristics and actions in virtual reality environments. Other real-world uses could include describing a patient's psychological state for medical records. The OASIS press release is here. No more :-/ for me. From now on, it's <smirk>!"

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  1. I think you meant by hey! · · Score: 4, Informative
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    1. Re:I think you meant by angelo · · Score: 2, Informative

      No, it's not
      . It's
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      xHTML is case sensitive and all elements are lowercase. Of course, you technically need to use <br /> if you want it to render correctly in most browsers.

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  2. Oasis by smallpaul · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is important to understand that OASIS is more of a standards body framework than an ordinary standards body. In other words, any OASIS member can decide to start an OASIS group on any idea, no matter how strange it may seem and no other OASIS member may prevent that. Few OASIS resources are used per group so the only real cost is in keeping tabs on all of the groups that are created.