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Taco (and Larry Fish)'s work, emobied in that document was inspired for
its time. In fact, as I got my own XML efforts underway I reviewed that
document and included it in my analysis of "active/current" cave survey
data representation techniques. I recall summarizing it as a solution
ahead of it's time, trying to accomplish then much of what XML delivers
now.

I think this is a piece that everyone interested in the CaveXML subject
would do well to become familiar with. To some degree this article
states several requirements for Cave Survey data in XML that CaveXML
should work to address. My own efforts have benefited from this seminal
work by Taco and Larry.

You can read it online at www.psc-cavers.org/xml/Exchfile.txt
or review an extract at www.psc-cavers.org/xml/OtherWorks.html

Devin Kouts

>I dug this up while cleaning my disk at work today, just happened
>to have a bearing on today's discussion. I believe Taco Van Ieperen
>wrote it.

>Garry Petrie

>FORMAT IDEAS

>This document is part of discussion for developing a file interchange
>format for cave survey data. The motivation for developing YET
>ANOTHER format is that all the currently available formats have
>problems. 

--
Devin Kouts
Caver
Systems Engineer
www.psc-cavers.org

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