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if anyone else responds to this email, and, if it, in fact does lead to a thread on the xml-dev list about SML, I can't be held responsible for my actions...:-) lisa (hint: those who care about sml can go check on the sml-dev list, any time they want right? -- just checking, thanks.) Don Park wrote: > > Quite a few people have been asking me about the status > of SML. This is a status report on the SML effort and > the group behind it, the SML-DEV. > > So far, we achieved tentative concensus on following > issues: > > SML is a strict subset of XML > SML supports: > UTF-8 and UTF-16 only. > empty elements. > numeric character entities. > predefined character entities. > SML does not support: > DTD > CDATA sections > XML and text declarations > Processing Instructions > Comments > Entities (except character entities) > SML attribute names must not conflict with > child element names. > > We are currently trying to formulate an information > model for SML before moving forward to tackle tougher > issues such as attribute, mixed content, and namespace > support. I think SML represents an unique opportunity > to do things right in the right order. In contrast, > XML information model is still being worked on, two > years after XML syntax. > > There have been some wildly innovative ideas that came > up in SML information model threads: attributed grammars, > colored nodes, rhythmic encoding, unisyntax data model, > and even some Grove model variations. Beauty of some of > these ideas can be appreciated immediately. For example, > following is a rather concise notation for our version of > the Groves model: > > node := character | map(string,list(node)) > > other versions that followed removes the distinction > between a character and a map, and then adds context: > > node = map(string, list(node)) > node = tuple(parent, map(string, list(node))) > > Some ideas were less apparent but fantastic nonetheless. > For example, the 'colored node' proposal starts with SML > having just black and white nodes (name and value), > then treats CSML (Colored-SML), CXML (Common-XML), XML, > XHTML, and arbitrary markup languages as SML with nodes > colored differently (i.e. attribute, PI, comment, etc.). > 'colors' differ from 'types' in that the colors are > not 'in' the model but provided by other means such > as parsers or 'painters'. Leigh Dodds prepared an example > titled "SML Color Book" which shows how the 'painting' is > done. > > http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccslrd/sml/coloringbook2.html > > While these ideas might seem a bit 'off-the-ground' to you, > most members of SML-DEV are as practical as they come, and > plan to use SML and related technologies to build commercial > products. E-commerce, B2B or B2C data exchange in particular, > seems to be the most common application SML-DEV members are > interested in using SML in. Just as the design of XML was > influenced by the primary interests of its inventors, > publishing documents on the web, SML's design will likely be > heavily influenced by our interests in e-commerce and data > exchange. After all, SML will be our child. > > Best, > > Don Park - mailto:donpark@d... > Docuverse - http://www.docuverse.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...) 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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