Re: [xml-dev] XMON

I tend to think that merely replacing one syntax with another is as big a waste of time as is possibly: and I think one of the central reasons for XMLs success was it prevented syntactic distraction by Mrs Palm and her five lovely daughters.

XML suffers from a lack of syntactic forms to signal underlying types. JSON is useless for status-classifying information (along XML' s content/attribute/comment/PI quartet) and for mixed content, of course. So let's combine them, retaining their syntax, taking the opportunity to rid XML of big things it doesn't need now (DTDs, encodings).

Regards

Rick

On 5 May 2017 06:51, "Tei" <oscar.vives@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4 May 2017 at 08:37, Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au> wrote:
> XML was ascendant for 10 years and overhyped. The second 10 years of its
> life its has been descending to be merely used where it is appropriate,
> which is the best any technology should hope for. Classic hype cycle, I
> guess.
>
> But in order to thrive, I think it needs to grow and morph into something
> more. What is the low hanging fruit, that would give a great increase in
> functionality with the maximum ability to connect to existing technology by
> small shims?

I suggest removing these Less than and More than symbols. I never <3 them.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<note>
<to>Tove</to>
<from>Jani</from>
<heading>Reminder</heading>
<body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>
</note>

=>

note
to [Tove] /to
from [Jani] /from
heading [Reminder] /heading
body [Don't forget me this weekend!] /body
/note

(yea, I removed the <?xml too, because between good gentlemen, we have
good defaults)

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