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"Don Park" <donpark@d...> writes: > What do you guys think? Please do not get caught up with the list I > presented above because they are just ideas and subject to change > later depending on your capacity to scream convincingly. The key > point to consider is whether there is a broad enough need for such a > subset of XML. It's too late -- since XML has already succeeded in gaining wide implementation as it is, it would be like buying insurance for the previous year. XML has been implemented so widely, and there are so many free and commercial parsers, libraries, and toolkits available that there would be no significant advantage (and great dangers) in creating a separate dialect at this point. Even if the separate dialect is a pure subset, it will still split the XML market for no good reason: applications that support only the subset will reject well-formed XML documents that happen to fall outside the subset. That said, it's certainly useful to define APIs that hide some of that stuff -- applications should not have to worry about unparsed entities, notations, etc. unless they want to. SAX was one attempt to do so. 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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