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Re: new xml specifications

From: Peter Flynn <peter.nosp@-.--------.-->
To: NULL
Date: 9/8/2005 12:15:00 AM
zacH wrote:

> I dont that but the xml came to me as a filename.xml. This file does
> nto have any specification of the xml 1.0 at the top. It just starts
> with a tag. The first tag has been started and ended but inside they
> are tags like the above

In that case either

a) it's SGML, in which case you can either use SGML tools to handle it,
   or run a normalizer like sgmlnorm which will add back in all the end-tag
   names (and fix all the omitted quotes, and regularize the case of Names)
   from where it is a very short step to make it valid XML. You will need
   the DTD to process it: SGML *requires* a DTD, it's not optional (but if
   the file format is very simple you could easily write a minimal one).

or

b) it was written by someone who had no clue what they were doing. I won't
   even suggest what you should say to them except that the words are 
   likely to be short and Anglo-Saxon in origin :-)

///Peter


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