Re: another ixml we should probably point to, to say "not us"

The audio metadata standard almost certainly has the 2007? precedent.

Note that if you expand to ‘NineML’ (as Norm uses) you also get a language for simulation in Neuroscience http://incf.github.io/nineml-spec/ !

John Lumley

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> On 2 Mar 2024, at 15:41, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Jim Saiya <jim.saiya@formatdata.com> writes:
> 
>> Figures. 🙄  I wonder how many more are out there lurking...
> 
> Good question.  A few seconds after hitting Send on my mail, I noticed
> another usage of the acronym.
> 
> Looking now a bit more systematically through search hits for "ixml", I
> find the following before I run out of patience:
> 
> - "an open standard for the inclusion of location sound metadata" in
>  various kinds of files (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/iXML)
> 
> - an "iterative event-driven XML parser" for Python
>  (https://pypi.org/project/ixml/)
> 
> - an IXMLNode interface that is apparently part of support for DOM in
>  Microsoft Windows
>  (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.data.xml.dom.ixmlnode?view=winrt-22621)
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 5:59 PM C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com> wrote:
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>> Just ran across documentation for an SAP library called iXML:
>> 
>>   https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_750_index_htm/7.50/en-US/abenabap_ixml_lib.htm
>> 
>> Perhaps our web site should mention it, if only to say "if you came here
>> looking for information on the SAP iXML library, this is not it".
>> 
>> Michael
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>> C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
>> Black Mesa Technologies LLC
>> http://blackmesatech.com
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> C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
> Black Mesa Technologies LLC
> http://blackmesatech.com
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