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Okay, I know this is going to be a hot one. Please be nice, as I'm only testing the waters. Mixed content probably has a place in XML that marks up human-readable prose, but I have not yet seen it used in my space, where data is machine-sourced and machine-consumed. If you're going to give mixed content to a machine, you'd better assume that the machine won't make sense of the unlabelled text (or non-explicitly labelled text). If you want something to use the data, you better put a label on it. Given that general entities and comments and such are (possibly) necessary in the XML-for-publishing space, is it safe for us to assume that SML is for marked up data only? Perhaps the use of SML-for-data will so significantly dwarf the use of SML-for-publishing that maximum benefit can be gained by excluding the requirements of publishing. Besides, you could always emulate mixed content such as... <x>I'm <evil-term>mixed</evil-term> content.</x> By writing... <x><text>I'm <text><evil-term>mixed</evil-term><text> content.<text></x> Everything is explicitly labelled. One additional benefit is that users would be free to introduce whitespace between elements without worrying about changing the semantics of the document. If we decide that SML is for data and not for publishing, should we then rename SML to Data Markup Language (DML)? The real answer to this question depends on the audience that is interested in SML, I think. So it would probably be sufficient to refute my suggestion by having a large enough group of people express interest in SML for publishing. -- Joe Lapp (Looking for some good people to help design Senior Engineer and build the Internet's business-to-business webMethods, Inc. XML infrastructure. We are 100% Java.) jlapp@w... http://www.webMethods.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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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