Re: [xml-dev] Towards XML 2.0

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>]

On 6 December 2010 14:55, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote:
> On 06/12/2010 14:36, Dave Pawson wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:50:57 +0000
>
>>
>> On which basis the only suggested improvement is to allow -- within
>> comments.
>>
>> worth a try for simplification.
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>
> Whether or not it's worth a try depends on what the ground rules are.
> If there is a rule that every well formed xmlnext document is well formed
> xml 1.0, then this is out of scope. A significant number of people (but
> clearly not all) in recent threads have wanted that. See for example Jirka
> here:
>
> http://cafe.elharo.com/xml/xml-2-0/comment-page-1/#comment-549222

There's a thread from earlier in the year discussing a simpler subset
of XML which covers similar ground to this:

http://markmail.org/thread/kxrg3tifg4k4fyj6

Looking back it received a fair amount of opposition...


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