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XML for Ancients

Posted by michael on from the still-pumped-from-using-the-chisel dept.

Andrew writes: "More than 5,000 years ago, the very first information revolution occurred when some unknown research team in Mesopotamia found a way to download and store language through a killer application called "writing.". The cuneiform digital library will have 60,000 texts ready in a couple of years. Using SVG and XML to represent their documents. Similar efforts are underway for hieroglyphics."

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  1. Re:Is access going to be free? by recursiv · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why do I always people saying things like: "Slashdotted already! What a pity... It should have been cached."

    But when I click on the link anyway, the site loads with on problem. This is the rule not the exception. The amount of times I can't get to a link from slashdot is surprisingly low.

    --
    I used to bulls-eye womp-rats in my pants
  2. re: erm... by Binary+Tree · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is how.

  3. Re:Hey! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I'm not sure about VA Systems, Mr Katz, but Komodo is quite a nice XML editor and it's available for Windows and Linux. It understands the syntax of PHP, Perl, XML, XSL, TCL, and JavaScript languages and has syntax highlighting for Ada,
    Batch,
    C#,
    C++,
    Diff,
    Eiffel,
    HTML,
    IDL,
    Java,
    JavaScript,
    LaTex,
    Lisp,
    Lua,
    Makefile,
    PHP,
    Pascal,
    Perl,
    Python,
    Ruby,
    SQL,
    TCL,
    Text,
    VisualBasic,
    XML,
    XLST.

    Have a really good day, Mr Katz.

  4. Re:erm... by fux0rz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    all your stoopid hemrons belong to l ron cupboard