[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Announce: XPDL (was XML is broken)
Rather than whining about XML's inadequacies, I thought that maybe it was time to remedy them, or to make proposals for doing so. A first draft of XML Processing Description Language is the current result. For the most part, it's a cleaner replacement for the prolog (apart from the <?xml?> declaration, which should remain there.) XPDL uses XML syntax (and eventually RDF) to describe the constraints of a class of documents, to specify where attribute defaulting and entity values should come from, what styles are appropriate to the class of a document, and to provide the usual documentation and extensibility. This is only a first draft, and as such, is incomplete in some areas and may be questioned in all. (RDF being a biggie, but this time I've explicitly reserved space for it.) The rules for connecting XPDs (XML processing descriptions) to particular documents are somewhat vague, but I have reasonable hopes that this proposal is workable, if a departure from the current approach. All comments and suggestions are welcome. If there is enough interest, I plan to continue developing this with an open model much like that used for XSchema and SAX. This is only a first draft intended to incite discussion. It is not a part of any formal standards process. Details are at http://purl.oclc.org/NET/xpdl . Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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