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Re: SLAIX (was: Can XLink be fixed)

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• Subject: Re: SLAIX (was: Can XLink be fixed)
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:28:10 -0400
• In-reply-to: <200208141931.PAA25502@m...>

8/14/2002 3:17:38 PM, John Cowan <jcowan@r...> wrote:

>
>	<book>
>	  <author sort="brownjohn">John Brown</author>
>	  <title>My Life</title>
>        </book>
>
>SLAIXifies somewhat as follows:


><slaix:slaix slaix:xmlns="..." xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset">
>	<document slaix:id="root" children="e1" document_element="e1" base_URI="..."/>
>	<element slaix:id="e1" local_name="book" children="e2 e3"
>		attributes="" namespace_attributes="" in-scope_namespaces="n1"
>		base_URI="..." parent="root"/>
>	<element slaix:id="e2" local_name="author" children="c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7 c8 c9 c10"
>		attributes="a1" namespace_attributes="" in-scope_namespaces="n1"
>		base_URI="..." parent="book"/>
>	<element slaix:id="e3" local_name="title" children="c11 c12 c13 c14 c15 c16 c17"
>		attributes="" namespace_attributes="" in-scope_namespaces="n1"
>		base_URI="..." parent="root"/>
>	<attribute slaix:id="a1" local_name="sort" normalized_value="brownjohn"
>		specified="true" attribute_type="CDATA" owner_element="e2"/>
>	<namespace slaix:id="n1" prefix="xml"
>		namespace_name="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"/>
>	<character slaix:id="c1" character_code="74" element_content_whitespace
>		= "false" parent="e2"/>
>	<!-- boring character elements omitted -->
></slaix:slaix>

May the gods have mercy on our miserable souls! XML was supposed to simplify SGML,
now there will be a rush to SGML because it is so much simpler than XML :~)

Not a substantive criticism of SLAIX, just whining about the unfairness of life, sorry.

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