From naras@stat.Stanford.EDU  Fri Feb 26 22:34:04 1999
From: naras@stat.Stanford.EDU (Balasubramanian Narasimhan)
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:34:04 -0800 (PST)
Subject: XML for Data
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Sometime ago, I  created a DTD for the Omega  project as an experiment
and was able to  parse it and convert it to a  DOM as was needed using
some freely available IBM tools. 

However, it was quite experimental and the design clearly reflected my
own frustrations  with dealing  with Intro Stat  text books  data. Time
constraints prevented me from really using it in Fall 1998, especially
because software was not readily available as it is now.

The combination of  XML and Java is especially  seamless. IBM, Sun all
provide automatic tools for creating DOMs. 

The DDI  project sounds  interesting and I  think input from  us would
really be nice. 

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B. Narasimhan                            naras@stat.stanford.edu
                             http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~naras





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XML for Data
Balasubramanian Narasimhan