From: winwaed@nodomain.com   
      
   On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:26:37 GMT, "Jonny"  wrote:   
      
   >Hi all,   
   >   
   >I want to build a rule-based system (Expert system). Does anyone knows if   
   >XML a suitable programming langage for it?   
   >   
   >thanks a lot   
      
      
   XML isn't a programming language but a data language - ie. it is used   
   to store data in a consistent way that can be parsed by an XML parser.   
   Also, various XML tools can then process it.   
      
   You could write a language in XML, in a similar way as you can write a   
   language in "pure ASCII text".  Eg. XSLT is a processing language   
   which is also legitimiate XML.   
      
      
   After saying that, I have a long term project which is based on a   
   simple expert system. I'm wondering about writing an expert system   
   scripting language within XML - but undecided. I need to do more   
   research.   
      
   The finished system is going to be open source (we already know the   
   main grant-giving agency would look very kindly on this, plus it makes   
   perfect sense for the type of project).   
   And every time I think about it, HTML/XHTML makes sense - so maybe   
   somekind of XML / XHTML hybrid will result.   
      
      
   Richard   
      
   Richard Marsden   
   Winwaed Software Technology   
   http://www.winwaed.com   
      
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