With an appropriate style sheet it is easy to generate an HTML file from
an XML file.
On 1/26/2012 5:48 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear John
>
>> Could you say a bit more about this requirement? In particular, "plain text with nothing but the list in it" and "machine-readable" aren't entirely contradictory, but may preclude more complex representations that are appropriate, no? (I'm not an expert in gazetteer representation, but being able to represent e.g., hierarchies of metadata gets tricky, I'm guessing. Is something like XML or RDF close enough to plain text to meet this goal/requirement?
> The main problem I was getting at is that a discursive HTML document is
> difficult for a program to use! A table in XML, for instance, would be OK,
> I agree. If it were primarily in XML, it would be helpful to provide a more
> human-readable version as well (e.g. the discursive HTML form). A plain-text
> file has the advantage of being both human- and machine-readable, doesn't it.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
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