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

The language that Python was based on, ABC, was *deliberately* named ABC so that no one would complain that we had used their name, since ABC seemed to be the most-used name in the commercial world.


Steven

On Monday 04 March 2024 02:48:33 (+01:00), Jim Saiya wrote:


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 <mailto: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 <mailto:cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com> > wrote:



Jim Saiya <jim.saiya@formatdata.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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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