• From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@b...>
• To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 08:36:43 -0600

During his talk at XML Prague this morning, Steven Pemberton announced
that the Invisible XML 1.0 spec has been published.  (Or so I believe --
I confess I was asleep at the time.)

Invisible XML (often ixml for short) is a method for treating non-XML
documents as if they were XML, enabling authors to write documents and
data in a format they prefer while providing XML for processes that are
more effective with XML content.  The basic method is simple: if the
non-XML notation of a file or data stream can be described by a
context-free grammar, an ixml processor can read the appropriate grammar
and use it to parse the non-XML data stream, returning an XML document
representing the parse tree for the input.

Multiple implementations of ixml exist, in a variety of languages (ABC,
Java, Javascript, XQuery; an XSLT implementation is in development).

Links to the spec, to tutorials, and to other supporting material
(schemas, sample grammars, related tools, test suite) are available at

  https://invisibleXML.org
  
Anyone interested in making it easier to apply the XML technology stack
to non-XML data is encouraged to check out invisible XML.

-- 
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Black Mesa Technologies LLC
http://blackmesatech.com

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