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Subject: RE: [tm-pubsubj-comment] Good PSIs never die


[Kal:]
No one has yet said that the documentation would be XML ! But even so which is more human readable:

<record>
<isbn>123456-09-23</isbn>
<auth-code>AHM1298</auth-code>
<pubdate>20011110</pubdate>
<stock-code>98993939385402</stock-code>
</record>

<book>
<book-title>XML Meta Data</book-title>
<authors>
  <author>Kal Ahmed</author>
  <author>Danny Ayers</author>
   ...
</authors>
<published>2001-11-10</published>
<description> -- blurb about the book goes here </description>
</book>

I would suggest that XML of the first form is "machine-readable" and XML of the second form is "human-readable". But depending upon the system(s) involved, the first form might be the only form that can be automatically generated for the subject indicator.

[Thomas:]
We have been talking about XTM, RDF, XHTML, customized XML so far - all this is XML. But you may be right - needs not to be XML. But I think it should not be binary encoded.
 
Readability only depends on the specific intelligence implemented in the machine/human.
If I (human, hopefully) understand the encoding of <auth-code> etc., I can read it.
If a machine doesn't, it cannot read it neither.
 
Cheers

Thomas Bandholtz
XML Network
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