Peter Flynn set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
continuum:

> Prai Jei wrote:
>> Which it was - sales information from a till. (Item sold, quantity,
>> price, account number.) It was the target system that required it in XML.
> 
> Ah. One of those. Nothing so simple as
> 
> <transaction id="abc123">
>    <item  code="xyz789" quantity="3" price="29.99" account="1234567890"/>
> </transaction>

That sort of thing but there are a few more fields requested. The verbosity
of the output format is significant if the data has to be transmitted
across a s---l---o---w wide area network connection. Ties up the till too
long, customers leave the checkout queue and walk out. We get round that by
having the sales information written first to a PC on the local network
(fast) which then relays it to the target system in its own time.

>>> <div0 type="law tract">
>>>    <div1 type="primary text">
>>>      <p><lb n="4"><term id="g1">Is mesiuch cach fear fine cunai a
>>>      fintiud</term> <term id="g2">naide rean</term> <term id="g3">naide
>>> [ & mucel mo vpon þis wyse ]
> 
> It's from a mediaeval legal document written in Old Irish, with glosses
> on the meaning of almost every phrase. Not easy to represent in any
> system, especially when it's important because some of the laws might
> still be in force.

I wondered what language it was, it certainly looked Gaelic but the absence
of accents (acute or grave) on any vowels made it impossible to be certain.
-- 
ξ:) Proud to be curly

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