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Michael,
If not an alternative syntax, what about a more dynamic reading
of XML syntax?
Yes, XML lacks complex objects (https://mark.js.org/) as
attribute values but nothing prevents us from inserting such
objects into an XML event stream.
The next step in the pipeline must support such objects but that
burden is on the individual pipeline and not the markup community
as a whole. Should that prove to be popular, no doubt support will
evolve for that as a common extension to XML processing.
Hope you are having a great weekend!
Patrick
On 02/11/2018 04:41 AM, Michael Kay
wrote:
We had Yet Another Alternative Syntax for XML
presented at XML Prague, under the name SML. I fear that all
such efforts are doomed to failure. The benefits of the
alternative syntax over XML, however much better it is, aren't
great enough to justify the cost of being different. It's like
improving on the QWERTY keyboard.
(And I'm not one of those with an emotional
attachment to the current syntax)
Michael Kay
Saxonica
As said:
It seems obvious that the most
important thing about XML is that it was the first.
People did a lot of that with
XML just because there was no other alternative.
So it might be time to look into
alternatives, like Mark (https://mark.js.org).
:-)
On Sun 11/2/18 1:48 AM,
Lauren Wood wrote:
There's a shorter piece on XML.com, written by Tim Bray.
https://www.xml.com/articles/2018/02/10/xml-20/
cheers,
Lauren
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:34 AM, u123724 <u123724@gmail.com> wrote:
Since nobody else seems to bother, I've written a blog post on the
occasion of the 20th anniversary of the publication of the XML 1.0
recommendation at http://sgmljs.net/blog/blog1802.html , focussing on
XML in the larger markup context.
Right now there's also a discussion going on at
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7wgxfx/20_years_of_xml/
so come join in if you feel like it.
Best,
M. Reichardt
sgmljs.net
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