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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> wrote: | IMO, the non XML format is only a pain for a parser writer. And an XML format would be a pain for the human reader/maintainer. | For the author, once learned, I think it easy and comfortable, | particularly as I've said before, because one doesn't get lost in | element elementness or attribute attributeness. Indeed. The typical schema "document" is practically all "markup". The syntax was designed to unobtrusive when there's lots of #PCDATA. When there's hardly any text content, the relentless progressions of pointy brackets and quoted strings does *not* make for readability. | No, GIs are NOT types anymore than PE names are types. Yea, verily, what he said. | I'd drop parameter entities. Time to develop proper syntactic forms where PEs were pinch-hitting. I'd say the SGML Extended Facilities (Annex A of ISO 10744) would be a good place to start mining for ideas.
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