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   Re: [xml-dev] ConciseXML syntax

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/ "Mike Plusch" <mplusch@clearmethods.com> was heard to say:
| ConciseXML solves the verbosity and ambiguity of
| XML 1.0 while while remaining compatible with
| XML 1.0.  ConciseXML is designed for data as
| well as documents.

Yikes!

- From http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-origin-goals

  ...
  10. Terseness in XML markup is of minimal importance.

| ConciseXML has four key improvements to XML 1.0:

For some definition of "improvements". I'm old enough to remember SGML
short tag. I even remember short ref.

No, thank you.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

- -- 
Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM    | Young men think old men are fools; but old
XML Standards Architect | men young men are fools.--George Chapman
Web Tech. and Standards |
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