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"Don Park" <donpark@d...> writes: > >To be concrete. I think it makes a lot of sense > >to allow a plain text document to parse and > >emerge at the far end of an XML processor > >as a single xml:text node consisting > >of PCDATA. > > Interesting idea. Only thing preventing that > is the root element rule which irks me sometimes. > Something like schematron could reduce the need > for the root element rule but I think we are stuck > with it for now. Hmm ... it sound like what you're looking for is a common API, not a common markup language. There's no reason that someone couldn't write a SAX driver that took Hello, world! and reported startDocument() startElement("__dummy") characters("Hello, world!") endElement("__dummy") endDocument() Ditto for a DOM builder. You could do the same for LaTeX, NROFF, RTF, comma-delimited fields, Excel spreadsheets, or whatever turns your crank -- we're talking about APIs, not XML itself (which is simply an external representation language). As I've suggested often, there's a many-to-many relationship between APIs and markup languages. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.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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