Re: [xml-dev] Napkin grammar

[Pete Cordell <pete++xmldev@codalogic.com>]

On 22/07/2021 18:11, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> (Hi Tim!)
>
> This is the kind of thing, at this premature stage:
>
> /<!-- I am a comment: 1 &lt; 2 -->/
> /<?whoami  answer a PI: but even here 1 &lt; 2 ?>/
> /
> /
> /<tom age=3 birthday=1980-04-26 /
> /       eyes=blue olympian=false/
> /      favorite-identity=" 1 &lt; 2">some mixed content<x />./
> / </tom>/
> /<dick note="second root!"  xml:id=d123/
> /      X&x#36;YZ="references anywhere!">/
> /    element content here, but no CDATA marked sections/
> /</dick> <and:harry xmlns:and="http://www.whatever.com/ 
> <http://www.whatever.com/>" />/
If you're not interested in the new syntax being a subset of XML and you 
still want namespaces, you'll want to consider an alternative way of 
mapping namespace prefixes to namespaces so that the mapping is 
available BEFORE it is required.  Currently the mapping mechanism 
requires a fair bit of pre-fetching and caching which is sub-optimal.

Something like the following might work:

<:and http://www.whatever.com/:>
<and:harry />

Pete.
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