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

[Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>]

On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 08:25 -0600, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 10:53 PM, James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> wrote:
[...]
> > single byte stream contain a sequence of MicroXML documents,

> Yes, this is something I've long wished XML had. Of course there have been
> all the old, transport layer tricks such as separating them with form feed
> characters and having a pre-processor separating by that signal and sending
> them serially to a parser, but it would be useful to have a way to describe
> the parsing of such documents in XML terms.

Maybe HTTP/2.0 (which Tim Bray reminds us is active) could have the
possibility of interleaving blocks of data from multiple streams, in
which case that might be a good place to address it.

Liam

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