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Re: [xml-dev] Generic XML Tag Closer </> (GXTC)

  Hi Robin,

On 8/21/06, Robin Berjon wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2006, at 11:40, Eric Bréchemier wrote:
> >> Any opinion is fine, useful, crazy, nonsense, should be done,
> >> must not coz it's going to break many things ...
> >
> > I would propose the following, standard-compliant approach,
> > illustrated by the sample below:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> > <!DOCTYPE _ [
> >  <!ELEMENT _ (#PCDATA|_)* >
> >  <!ATTLIST _ _ CDATA #REQUIRED>
> > ]>
> > <_ _='document'>
> >  <_ _='head'>
> >    <_ _='title'>ScoreXML</_>
> >  </_>
> >  <_ _='body'>
> >    <_ _='p'>This is a ScoreXML sample</_>
> >  </_>
> > </_>
> >
> > The overhead is only one character for end-tags (six for start-tags),
> > and there is a 1-1 mapping to any xml document...
>
> Do you have an example of that using namespaces?
>

I don't think using namespaces would do any good for that matter; it
leads to way too much overhead with all the 'xmlns:' and element
prefixes, and namespace declarations are just too long for any user
typing xml by hand.

Regards,

Eric Bréchemier


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