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Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 19:38:53 +0100
From: "Thomas Geiger" <address@hidden>
Subject: Approaching XML import/export
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Hello list members,
first let me introduce myself quickly - my name is Thomas Geiger, currently
a CS student at the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences (
http://www.fhv.at).
By begin of February I'll start working on my diploma thesis which aims to
integrate GNU Octave into a grid environment (based on Globus Toolkit -
http://www.globus.org/toolkit/) and - as you could imagine - this road map
might also include XML support (read/write) for Octave.
Just my two cents on XML - after having taken a look at the XML threads of
this list, my favorite approach is 6 (a custom written parser,
http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?XML-tools-for-Octave).<http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?XML-tools-for-Octave>The
proposed solution would make use of a well performing parser like
expat
(benchmarks neet to be done on this choice), and follow 4 (geodise toolbox)
from a functionality point of view. For an initial version I'd suggest to
stick on a Octave only format (validated by XSD), the import of other
formats/standards (also MatLab?) could be handled by usage of XSLT
transformations/further hacks later on (hopefully).
Important for me to know - is already someone working on this, otherwise I'd
like to - of course there needs to be some more detailed negotiation
regarding the features.