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Eric van der Vlist scripsit:
> Yes, sure. The compact syntax fr Relax NG and the alternative syntax
> (N3) for RDF are other good examples.
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> I don't know, for instance, if YAML could have been of any help for
> these syntaxes:
>
> http://yaml.org/
YAML is at the opposite extreme. RNG compact syntax and N3 are authoring
syntaxes; YAML is a data-transfer syntax. XML is an attempt at a compromise
and as such suboptimal for either task.
What is new (except to Lispers) is the idea of a standardized intermediate
syntax into which the surface syntaxes can be translated. We do not need
one parser per vocabulary *per implementation*; it suffices to have a
single standard translator from the specialized syntax to the general one.
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