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Technology, Programming, Webarch

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Mini HTMLs

"@@ Nelson quote"

It seems that anybody who's anybody has worked on mini-HTMLs, i.e. HTMLs that are formulated in different schema languages, have slightly different structures from W3C HTML, and so on. I've done at least two (HTML Simple, HTML Misc), and other people that have include John Cowan, Dan Connolly, Murray Altheim, Masayasu Ishikawa. Dave Raggett has probably done some too, and there's also the ISO efforts. James Clark's RELAX NG schemata for HTML could probably be included here too, along with RDDL (Borden and Bray et al.) and other HTML variants.

@@ Compile a list of the mini-HTMLs.

sedawk

Sed and awk seem to be areas that people are rather keen on improving. I wanted to write a sed for N-Triples, and I even went so far as to write ppr--a script that does some nice sed-like things.

John Cowan is also working on his basic arithmetic expressions (bae), about which he gave the following example: "sort -t: -k7 /etc/passwd | bae -t: 'g, avg(c)' sorts /etc/passwd by shells and prints the average user ID for each shell", and noted that it "lets you write filters that do simple arithmetic expressions on the input. The fields are named a, b, c, ... but you can override this".

See also my ppr note.

Sean B. Palmer