statist + XML

[Elmar Ludwig]

Andreas Beyer wrote:
> I am working on an XML-interface for statist.

Why XML?

> The DTD will be very simple. It only has two basic elements:
> 'table' having the attribute 'title'
> 'column' having the attributes 'title' and 'type'
> 'type' can be either 'string' or 'numerical'

I can't imagine how this is supposed to look like. Don't you need
an element for the cell contents?

> This definition is compatible to many other DTD and extendable
> (e.g. another  'type' could be 'bin' or anything else).

Do you have a DTD already (to look at)?

Elmar.

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