Re: new eduml dtd

[Bill Ries-Knight <brk@slip.net>]

OK,
I will use one of my wife's grade books, and build a data set in MS excel.
Objections?
Bill

Bruno Vernier wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 01:17:36PM -0800, Bill Ries-Knight wrote:
> > Instead of this format, can y'all accept a database set of a full class
> > grade book.  I could pull one of my wife's old grade books an submit it,
> > identity neutralized of course.  What can see is building a spreadsheet
> > version, with or without cell modifications.... Just let me know.
>
> Yes! I think it is time to start exporting data from our legacy educational
> admin programs and writing conversion scripts from the various private
> export formats into EDUML.  Well, OK; let's do it for at least one so we can
> do a reality check on EDUML DTD.  I hope to do this with my class this
> coming week by using PERL to convert export data from "remark" (TM).
>
> > Daniel Moore wrote:
> > > Real world data sets can help determine what EDUML needs and can do
> > > without.  In addition, validating such a set against a DTD tells what
> > > parts of the DTD need work.
> > >
> > > On the other hand, I imagine that creating such data sets with a text
> > > editor would be a pain.  So perhaps the return isn't worth the effort?
>
> I tried doing this by hand and found it too mind-numbing :-(
>
> So far, I have a nice collection of XML extracting/query tools so that it is
> now very "grep"-like to get just the relevant information from any XML
> file.  I am now looking forward to finding simple sharp tools for XML
> data-entry and updating; preferably in linux tty mode or web-browser mode.
> This should make it more enjoyable and efficient to write sample XML files.
>
> Bruno

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