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From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@r...> > What is new (except to Lispers) is the idea of a standardized intermediate > syntax into which the surface syntaxes can be translated. We do not need > one parser per vocabulary *per implementation*; it suffices to have a > single standard translator from the specialized syntax to the general one. Don't forget SGML short-references. You can normalize a short-refed document into a fully tagged document. Where SGML short tags go wrong in the XML world is that they disrupt well-formedness: as well as the nice <formula>a^2</formula> which expands to <formula>a<sup>2</sup></formula> it also allows <formula>a^2</sup></formula> So any reintroduction of a short-ref-like mechanism into XML must be as a post-process (or Schema process) with WF-XML in and WF-XML out (augmented with other infotypes if you like). WXS has its lists and regular expressions, and Simon's Regular Fragmentations goes a little further. I don't think these go far enough in their current forms. Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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