Re: [xml-dev] magic competition (was Re: [xml-dev] annotations outside validation)

[Kal Ahmed <kal@techquila.com>]

11/13/01 2:15:48 PM, Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@propylon.com> wrote:

>Simon,
>
>I like where you are going with that! Lets have an XML Magic
>competition!
>
>The problem: How to add stuff into the XML instance (be it linking info,
>super whitespace handling rules, extra encoding information, XML profile info
>etc.) with the following provisos:
>
>         A solution that can grow as we find more things we missed
>         Don't break existing systems
>         Make the new stuff easily round-trippable
>         No need to write custom parsers for the new stuff
>         Don't make life harder for app developers who don't give a rats
>         posterior about the new stuff.
>

Sounds like a set of requirements for groves to me. Perhaps we need not XML Magic but SGML Arcane Lore ? ;-)

Cheers,

Kal