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 KaySaxonica
On 10 Feb 2018, at 23:54, Henry Luo <henry@perpetuatech.net> wrote:
As said:
So it might be time to look into alternatives, like Mark (https://mark.js.org). :-)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.
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 _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php_______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php
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