Re: [xml-dev] [ANNOUNCE] New MicroXML draft available

[Manos Batsis <manos_lists@geekologue.com>]

Just did a quick scan over the draft and have one question/request: 
would it be possible to quicky summarize the differences between XML and 
MicroXML? Just a suggestion but I would really like for the draft 
abstract to go for that :-)

Kindest regards,

Manos

On 07/05/2011 06:26 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> The 2011-06-30 draft of MicroXML is now available at
> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/MicroXML.html . There are two substantive
> changes in this draft and a whole lot of editorial ones, including
> conversion from plain text to HTML.  (The draft is now a MicroXML
> document as well.)
>
> The first substantive change is that a subset of XML processing
> instructions are now part of MicroXML.  PIs are not in the data model,
> but processors SHOULD pass them to applications anyhow.  A MicroXML PI
> MUST look like a start-tag, except for beginning "<?" and ending "?>",
> so PIs similar to xml-style work, but random PIs like "<?foo bar?>" do
> not.
>
> The second change is the provision of a JSON representation of the
> MicroXML data model using the JsonML convention.  In this convention,
> an element object is represented as a JSON array whose first element is
> the name, second element is a JSON object representing the array map,
> and remaining elements are the children (either strings or JSON arrays).
> This roundtrips the data model and MicroXML documents (without PIs or
> comments) through JSON, but is not suitable for roundtripping JSON
> through MicroXML; for that purpose the JSONX convention is RECOMMENDED.
>
> I'll have a new release of MicroLark, the first MicroXML parser, soon.
> This will support PIs as a standard feature and will provide many useful
> iterators over the Element tree.
>