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Vane Lashua writes: > I think you're mixing apples and oranges. I see it the other way: I try to make people realize that they are the same, and the current artifical limits in the XML syntax make people stuble on artificial syntax problems. > An even simpler declaration of your example below -- and correct in XML -- > would be: > <Point value="12in,2cm;RFFx,G0,B0" /> This is not XML. You invent a sub-language to describe the contents of the value attribute. You will then need XML and a XML parser to understand the outer XML, and you will have to invent and specify the inner language, and design and implement the parser, which is *more* complex than an unified "XML 2" language. (note that SVG did just that with the contents of the path element :-). People tend to invent plenty of these sub-languages and mentally hide them under the rug, failing to see that the did not simplified anything, just made things more complex at more places in many different - and often unspecified - ways. > XML is a storage medium. Java source code is a storage medium. XML may > contain Java source code syntax, as Java source code may contain XML syntax, > but both need processors to do more. Yep, but if you look at my example, you could see that I got rid of any sub-language!!! I only need an XML parser, nothing else at the parsing level. I still need the upper semantic level, of course, but at least I dont have to have plenty of different lexical parsers (and specs) to describe my data. The SVG example is striking. To implement a SVG viewer, you need to have an XML parser, plenty of other parsers to parse the sub-languages invented in the different attributes and contents of the SVG XML, including a full CSS and HTML parser... Note that I descibed only the object instances, NOT the classes structures (this belongs to schemas, not to the XML level), and they are not java, they could represent C++, common lisp, python,... objects! -- Colas Nahaboo, Koala/Dyade/Bull @ INRIA Sophia, http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas 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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