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• To: 'Oleg Tkachenko' <oleg@t...>, Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>
• Subject: Simplify XML Now? (Was RE: Re: Hostility to "binary XML" (was Re: XML 2004 weblog items?))
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:14:11 -0600
• Cc: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>, xml-dev@l...

Norm makes good points.  Derek has made good points in his blogs. 
That is what makes me think the time has come to consider this. 
There is sufficient shared experience to do it just as there 
was when it was done to SGML.

It seems that is what experience teaches in every creative 
endeavour:  what to leave out.

len

new subject for important topic


From: Oleg Tkachenko [mailto:oleg@t...]

Michael Champion wrote:

> I ended my talk with a *personal* [don't hold any past, present, or
> future employer responsible!] recommendation "Leave evolution to
> Darwin, not Berners-Lee".  In other words, it's time to experiment, to
> develop specs that meet the needs of some specific industry, to see if
> parsing and compression technology for XML text can be dramatically
> improved .... and THEN to come back with data and best practices in
> hand to see if W3C Recommendations can be agreed upon.

I wonder if possible XML simplifications such as Norm Walsh was writing 
about [1] could speed up parsers?
If there were no DOCTYPE, no entities, no default or fixed attributes, 
no limitations on characters used, no default namespaces, etc.

[1] http://norman.walsh.name/2004/11/10/xml20

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