Re: [xml-dev] Multiple instances of an attribute Re: [xml-dev] TowardsXM

[David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>]

On 10/12/2010 10:10, Stephen Green wrote:
> The xml:json would not need a schema to distinguish an unordered list or array
> from a sequenced one so the parser would know whether to treat the order as
> significant without having to load and understand a schema or be programmed
> with being able to read different kinds of schema language, etc. That seems to
> me a crucial difference and there may be others.

yes but that doesn't answer the question as to why it would be useful to 
do that in a general XML context, as in my xpath example, why would it 
be useful to know it's a sequence of integers if you don't know 
everything else you needed to know about evaluating xpath (or json) and 
if you do know how to evaluate xpath it's not too hard to know that it 
is contained in particular attributes.

(x)html doesn't need a schema to tell it that what is in a script 
element is javascript/json

David

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