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Re: Towards XML 2.0

• From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
• To: David Lee <dlee@calldei.com>
• Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 15:05:05 +0000

On 7 December 2010 14:42, David Lee <dlee@calldei.com> wrote:
> I'd even argue for a minimum *without attributes* and without mixed content,
> no DTD subset, no namespaces, and only UTF8 support.

I've had to deal with "element only" xml and it's not that pleasant...
instead of the usual:

<item type="foo">value<item>

you have the verbose:

<item>
  <type>foo</type>
  <value>value</value>
</item>

and your xpaths go from:

item[@type = 'foo']

to

item[type = 'foo']/value

...so not great.

I agree with no DTDs, no namespaces, UTF-8 only etc... mixed content
has to stay otherwise you may as well not call it xml.


-- 
Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com

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