Re: Universal Astrological Database Format

From: Paul G. Brown <paul_geoffrey_brown_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 17 Jul 2003 21:28:38 -0700
Message-ID: <57da7b56.0307172028.7bb614c4@posting.google.com>

"John Roth" <newsgroups_at_jhrothjr.com> wrote in message news:<vhbg6fioell324_at_news.supernews.com>...
> "Bernard Peek" <bap_at_shrdlu.com> wrote in message
> news:fqiYD+Ex5lD$EwsP_at_diamond9.demon.co.uk...

> > The obvious system for doing this is XML. This is what it was designed
> > for. It records data and metadata and is platform independent. There are
> > programs to handle XLM with PCs, Macs and UNIX systems. Many of those
> > tools are free.
>
> Absolutely agree. (BTW - I'm one of the posters from AAT that's been
> working this thread. The basic problem we're having is that the
> person with the most enthusiasm for getting the job done believes
> that comma separated text files are the way to go.) ):

I can think of no finer application of XML than to structure, record and communicate Astrology data. Received on Thu Jul 17 2003 - 23:28:38 CDT