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The Easy Way To Work With XML.

Posted by timothy on from the use-more-letters dept.

dahoba writes: "'The xsbrowser (XML Schema browser) aims at creating a human readable XML document model from a given DTD (REC-xml-19980210) or XML schema (REC-xmlschema-1-20010502) by means of an HTML browser. The user needn't understand the DTD or XML Schema syntax.' A very interesting approach which may lead to a wider acceptence for XML."

10 comments

  1. And this would be useful for...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why in the world would you worry that your data was 'human-readable'? If you are relying on an schema to display your data in a nice format, perhaps you've missed the chapter about XSL.

    Data is data. Presentation is presentation. Mixing them for no good reason is a waste of effort.

    1. Re:And this would be useful for...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It is people like you who claim that plain XML markup is meaningful and "semantic". What a misconception!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    2. Re:And this would be useful for...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think you missed the point. This is to get a human readable version of the *schema*. Such a representation is very valuable as a reference for working with XML documents that conform to the schema.

    3. Re:And this would be useful for...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      what point are you talking about, schema is human readable. are you a mongoloid moron?

    4. Re:And this would be useful for...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Do you really claim that an XML document or in particular an XML schema is self-explaining or human readable? Either you have never worked with XML schemas or only with very very very small schemas. In addition, what is the XML Schema documentation element good for? Possibly it is you who doesn't get the things right, not the many other people ...

  2. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    XML is just another over-used buzzword that can be applied to anything and everything. Show me how it'll make a difference in my everyday life and then I'll care.

    1. Re:Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Your life? Well, what's your job?

      Mine is managing documentation. A single source high-level semantically markedup document can be transformed via XSL nto HTML and XSL:FO then PDF.

      XML is nifty.

    2. Re:Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What is the use of the concept in XML Schema? You as an expert on documentation surely can tell me ...

    3. Re:Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What is the use of the documentation concept in XML Schema? In other words, what is the difference between syntax and semantics? You as an expert on documentation should know better ...

  3. This seems like an odd thing to do... by vortigern00 · · Score: 1

    XML already makes your data easier to read. By wrapping the data in XML markup (which is essentially metadata), you are putting it in a form that humans naturally read.

    Humans are great information analyzers. If all the information is on a page, your brain sorts it out and makes you understand even if the information is in an unfamiliar order. In XML, by definition, all the information is there... Your brain gets it pretty easily.