Re: A state-machine language in XML

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Sun, 18 March 2007 08:21 UTC

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On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:45:31PM +0100,
 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote 
 a message of 42 lines which said:

> > For those who would prefer a XML syntax:
> > 
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-scxml-20070221/
> 
> After reading it, I can summary:

There is also an older proposal at the W3C: XTND

http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-xtnd-20001121

Its main strength is that it is a very good introduction to the issue
and a good rationale. The language itself is curiously poor
(events/messages are not even explicit in this language).



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