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RE: Sky is falling again...

• To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Subject: RE: Sky is falling again...
• From: Sam Hunting <shunting@e...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:56:15 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <1034084286.4691.34.camel@ibook>

> 
> BTW, have you noticed that yet another XML spec is defining a non XML
> syntax?
> 
> http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/ltm-1.3-prop.html

See also:

    http://www.gooseworks.org/l1.html 

for the L1 syntax that represents topic map graphs.

XML is great, I would never trash it, but it doesn't meet all
requirements. I see the emergence of little languages developed by markup
people as a very encouraging, grass roots sign. 

Patrick Durusau's work on JITTs shoudl culiminate in the rehabilitation of
datatag and short references (little languages that parse!) and the LMNL
people seem to be playing in an overlapping space.

Content = data + markup as ever -- it's just that outside the marketing
departments and the committees the notion of what "markup" means is
becoming a lot more flexible.


Sam Hunting
eTopicality, Inc.

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