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Re: Why XML is a waste of time
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Hans Hendriks <[log in to unmask]>
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Hans Hendriks <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 17 Feb 2000 08:59:04 -0800
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Erik Vistica <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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...<snip>...
> Sounds like Self Describing (SD) files (I believe that Robelle
> makes/made use of these. An age old paper comes to mind. Anyone at
> Robelle care to comment?) I think Query uses them too (I never got into
> the details).

David Greer's 1992 paper "Adopting Self-Describing Files" is available at:
http://www.robelle.com/ftp/papers/sd.txt

/Hans
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