Maybe Coming Time to XML?

[Christopher Browne]

The "special markup language" idea morphs very naturally over
to that of using XML as the format; this has the merit that it
is:
a) Somewhat understood;
b) "Sexy" and widely believed-in.

I agree that the flexibility limits probably aren't that much of
a real issue.

The killer issue for *any* of these sorts of schemes are that there
is a need to have a way of not only representing data, but also of
representing "report behaviour."

On the Schemely side of things, DSSSL is exemplary in this regard;
unfortunately its definition is rather large, and it is complex to
fully understand.

XSL seems to be the "XML-ly" approach to this; this still requires
that there be a well-defined model as to what things there are to be
controlled using XSL.

Obviously it is not attractive to be adding more components to
GnuCash so as to make it Even Harder To Assemble And Compile; there
is some point at which the merits of some additions outweigh the
demerits.  

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