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

As they say, "There's nothing new under the sun."  At least "iXML" is a tad
more creative--and unusual--than "Atom".  People who reach for that name
for a new product/technology/etc. don't even CARE that it's been used a
thousand times before.

Jim


On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 11:10 AM John Lumley <john@saxonica.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> 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:
>
>
> 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
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> http://blackmesatech.com
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>
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> C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
> Black Mesa Technologies LLC
> http://blackmesatech.com
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