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

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

On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 12:51 +0000, David Lee wrote:

> I keep looking for some magic string that is more easy to insert in a
> plain text editor (try getting a 0x1F into a text document with VI or
> Notepad).

Don't know about notepad; in vi, control-v in insert mode quotes the
next character, and 1F is control-underscore, so control-v control-_
will put it there, as will (in gnome terminal) control-v followed by
control-shift-u and then (keeping shift held down) any hex sequence, in
this case 1F, to enter the corresponding unicode character.

> I am trying to solve sequences of arbitrary XDM as well as XML
> documents

Then I think you want a single document containing an xdm-sequence
top-level element. If you want to preserve sequences of strings then you
need per-item markup.

Liam

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