REPLY Who wants to share models (SD6944)

[SDMAIL Bill Rathborne]

Posted by  Bill Rathborne <brathborne at sympatico.ca>

On 20-Apr-08, at 7:31 AM, SDMAIL Mabel Fong wrote:
> It is certainly to be granted that the development of SD will
> be greatly aided by more self-documenting, bulletproof, and 
> behaviorally rich
> software. But, given the differences among SD models and among the 
> problems
> addressed by SD, might not the drive toward the ultimate software 
> package be
> counterproductive if carried too far? Is it not best to be satisfied with
> duplicating one another’s results with our peculiar programming setups?

It appears to me that the objective is to create an "XML" type uniform 
language that contains the *content* of a particular model that can be 
ported across multiple application programs - that may have particular 
features, user interfaces, etc. - but where the results (output graphs) 
would be the same in all cases. However, each application program may 
have options that allow users to select alternative displays not 
available in other application programs.  "KML" is a specific instance 
of an "XML" language that is used for Google Earth, Extensible Financial 
Reporting Markup Language (XFRML) for business, finance and accounting, 
and Chemical Markup Language (CML) is a new approach to managing 
molecular information.

"XML's" are text based files with a readily readable structure that can 
aid significantly in understanding the structure of a model created by 
others.

Bill
Posted by  Bill Rathborne <brathborne at sympatico.ca>
posting date  Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:16:45 -0400