Re: [xml-dev] "Introducing MicroXML, Part 1: Explore the basicprinciples

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

David Lee scripsit:

> In fact if MicroXML is to be fully supported in XML then ideally it
> should be parsable into XDM.   Then I can still use Saxon Xdm as the
> data model and MicroXML as simply an alternative text format.

Every well-formed MicroXML document is a well-formed XML document.
Therefore, MicroXML is parsable into XDM under the same circumstances
as full XML, namely that it must also be namespace-valid.

> I recall that a goal of MicroXML is that it be readable by a full XML
> parser.  But I have not followed the discussions enough to determine
> if it can be parsed into XDM ... and how similar the result would be
> if the same text stream were parsed as XML into XDM.

The only difference is the treatment of line endings inside attribute
values, which are left alone in MicroXML and converted into spaces in
full XML.

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