CDFO: Raw Data _and_ XML

[Richard Knapp]

>What I would propose is that the text in the survey notebook 
>is copied out character for character into a text window.  ...
>[snip]
>following XML constructs (which works like a <pre></pre> 
>in html): 
>
><source_survey   form="SurvexStandard1999">
><![CDATA[   
>    ; survey text copied from the paper.  
>   *units metres
>   A B  10 10 9
>]]>
></source_survey>

This seems to be reasonable. Since XML allows parts of the structure to be safely ignored, it 
doesn't impose a burden on anything.

To me, it still seems odd to have the data in there like that.  It is an _extensible_ format but it 
seems this could be easily handled with XSL transformations (from the native to XML might be a 
little more work but definately back would be simple).






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