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Re: [xml-dev] Towards XML 2.0

> I'd even argue for a minimum *without attributes* and without mixed content,
> no DTD subset, no namespaces, and only UTF8 support.
>

+1000

Yes please!

Cheers

Stephen Green


On 7 December 2010 14:42, David Lee <dlee@calldei.com> wrote:
> I'd even argue for a minimum *without attributes* and without mixed content,
> no DTD subset, no namespaces, and only UTF8 support.
>
> A processor (parser/ language binding etc) for such a minimum would be much
> smaller, possibly "JavaScript" small/fast,
> and on equal footing with JSON.
>
> It would still be "XML" (i.e. parseable by full parsers) but vastly useful
> on its own.
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
> David A. Lee
> dlee@calldei.com
> http://www.xmlsh.org
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Welch [mailto:andrew.j.welch@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 9:36 AM
> To: Pete Cordell
> Cc: David Lee; vojtech.toman@emc.com; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Towards XML 2.0
>
>
>> And presumably it still requires processing of internal DTD for attribute
>> default values and so on?
>>
>> The profiles seem more like XML 1.0 + XML Namespaces + other additional
>> profile specific stuff, rather than simplifications.  Personally it's not
>> what I'm looking for.
>
> Nor me... I think the absolute minimum... just elements, attributes
> and angle brackets :)
>
> That's the tag line anyway.
>
>
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> Andrew Welch
> http://andrewjwelch.com
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