Re: [xml-dev] xml 2.0 - so it's on the way after all?

[Bob Foster <bob@objfac.com>]

Rick Marshall wrote:
 > syntactically, xml uses opening symbols of <, <!, <?, </ and <![. as
 > these are not white space delimited it is therefore not lr-1 for
 > parsing......

If there were to be an XML 2.0, one of the goals should be that any 
off-the-shelf parser generator can produce a parser for it. It's 
ridiculously hard to write a correct XML parser; it ought to be 
ridiculously easy.

I also agree with whoever wrote that DTDs, validation and macro 
expansion should be pulled out of the base specification entirely. Hey, 
here's an idea: what you see is what you get.

Bob Foster