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Re: XML and embedded compound data types (was "Why XML data typin is ha

• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:32:17 -0500

Paul Prescod wrote:

> XML allows us to design languages that are palatable for human beings.

My proposed LocalMarkupFilter allows us to design languages that
are palatable for human beings (with syntax appropriate to a given
notation), but processable using only XML parser events, with no
second-order parser (technically, no second-order *lexer*) required.

> Just out of curiosity, here are some of the XML-related specs that fail
> according to your heuristic:
> 
>  * XPointer
>  * XML Namespaces
>  * XSL

Also URIs and URI references in general.
 
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  • Re: XML and embedded compound data types (was "Why XML data typin is hard")
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