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From: Don Park <donpark@d...> >I don't think the SML discussion is taking attention away >from XML Schema discussions. Why all the hostility, Rick? I apologize to Don Park: there was no intention to be discourteous. SML is a well-trodden path. I first put out a grammar on comp.text.sgml for a simplified SGML sometime about 1994 which I recall (I don't want to embarrass myself by reading it) was pretty similar to what Don is suggesting, probably SMLwith simple DTDs. And there were several other, better efforts around at a similar time. At the time, Charles Goldfarb contacted me over it, and he gently pointed out that however much SGML needed simplificiation or revision, it had to come from credible grassroots demand and work, respecting the generic markup principles behind SGML. In the fullness of time, that came about through Jon Bosak and W3C, and everyone knows that the ISO working group welcomed it (indeed, XML is incorporated into ISO 8879 through Annex L). And, as for whether SML is a distraction from XML schemas, how many postings have there been on XML-DEV about the structure drafts? There have been a couple of good ones about the datatypes, but not on the structures, that I recall. I predict that the moment that the XML Schema becomes a recommendation, this mailing list will bustle with well-reasoned calls for simplified XML Schema--alas too late. > Is And Borenstein's markup language XML? > SML is and I believe it makes a difference. The spec for text/enriched can be found at ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1563.txt It has well-formed tags, a handful of pre-defined elements, the notional top-level element must be omitted, and the notional paragraphs start tag is (if we treat it as SGML) shortreffed to a blank line. If Don wants to persue SML to standards-level, then one strategy could be to integrate it with text/enriched: you could upgrade that so that if the text/enriched document starts with a start-tag or comment, then it uses the SGML rules other wise it uses the current text/enriched rules. Another approach you could take for SML is to integrate it with a short-tag system. I have two small C utilities at http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~ricko/src/ that may be of interest. The first short-tag-compress.c compresses an XML file using shorttag ommission. The file short-tag-uncompress.c uncompresses the file. (I wrote them to claims about verify XML's behaviour w.r.t. deflate compression.) There is the kernel of a very simple XML in them it. (B.t.w., my results were that probably it would be useful to use shorttag ommission on an XML document because even though there was only a small effect when combined with compression, the result was that more information would make it into the vital first packet-group; the first group is important because it may contain link in headers: the earlier these resources can be requested, the better the perceived performance to the user. And, in any case, the code is so trivial that even a 1% decrease in filesize might be enough to justify it.) Rick Jelliffe 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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