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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. SlashCode... by Dutchie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It would be interesting to do this 'moderation' thing some time. I had hoped that the new SlashCode would accidentally give me moderation points every now and then, but gee, even though my 'karma' now is at 35, I've yet to see any moderation points. I'd email CmdrTaco... oh wait, I *have* emailed CmdrTaco, but he never replied, silly me.

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