On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Richard Knapp wrote:
> [...]
> Since CaveXML is just plain ole ASCII (UniCode really but...), files could be created with a smart (ie macro)
> editor with ease. There may be problems with well-formedness (!) and validity but it is possible.
In the odd case where you want strange Unicode characters in your data,
and have an editor that only understands characters up to 127, I have
a perl script that converts character entities into the equivalent
UTF-8 encodings. (I use vi as an editor, and have some web pages with
non-english text on them, and this suits my needs in those cases.)
> Hence, it is also possible a generic XML editor could be used, especially until a special editor is available for
> CaveXML. Yes it would be clunky. Yes, it would be a pain but if it works well....
As long as the "base set" for CaveXML is small, it should be hand editible.
> So, I don't think we should discount them off hand. Those generic editor might prove to help simplify the
> format.
And scripts from many existing formats to CaveXML shouldn't be hard
to write.
> FWIW....
>
> - Richard Knapp
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