Re: [xml-dev] XML Redux

[mozer <xmlizer@gmail.com>]

Hence why not bite the bullet and go for something like Oslo (M)

http://blog.jclark.com/search/label/Oslo

Xmlizer

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
>
>> But then looking at Mikes
>>>
>>> {  authors: [
>>>       {name: "Michael Kay", affiliation: "Saxonica"},
>>>       {name: "Liam Quin", affiliation: "W3C"}
>>>    ]
>>>    abstract:<para { style : "bold" }>Here be some dragons</para>
>>>    content:<section { numbers : [1,1,2] }><para>...</para></section>
>>> }
>>
>> I'm not sure if content: is markup? I can see authors as a list..
>> Is content: wrapping<section/>
>>
>>
>> No. Just as
>
> affiliation : "Saxonica"
>
> is a name-value pair (within a map) where the name is affiliation and the
> value is a string, so
>
> content: <section><para>...</para></section>
>
> is a name-value pair (within a map) where the name is content and the value
> is a (textual) element.
>
> This is what I mean about composability between structured data and
> marked-up text, without being forced to represent the structured data using
> syntax that was designed for textual markup. (Not dissimilar from putting
> XML in a column of an RDB, except that (a) the structured data part is more
> powerful than rows-and-columns, and (b) you can have structured data inside
> the text content as well as vice versa.)
>
> Michael Kay
>
>
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