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[Lisa Rein] >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.) > Oh, you can be held responsible for your actions ok! You are laying flame bait with this rude, condescending, dismissive e-mail. You think you can just walk away from it giggling? Get a grip Lisa! Don? thanks for the summary. Lisa? Please send any consequential inflammable material directly to me rather than to the list. regards, Sean McGrath >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...) > > > 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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