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Re: ConciseXML syntax

• To: <xml-dev@l...>,"Mike Plusch" <mplusch@c...>
• Subject: Re: ConciseXML syntax
• From: "James Rayner" <rcxau@y...>
• Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:58:35 +1100
• References: <004101c2be4b$762d4c60$6aa8a8c0@c...>

And will it display in IE or NS
I doubt (really compatible eh?)

rcxau

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Plusch" <mplusch@c...>
To: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Saturday, 18 January 2003 04:11
Subject:  ConciseXML syntax


> ConciseXML solves the verbosity and ambiguity of
> XML 1.0 while while remaining compatible with
> XML 1.0.  ConciseXML is designed for data as
> well as documents.
> 
> ConciseXML has four key improvements to XML 1.0:
> 
> 1. optional ending tag
> ConciseXML: <textarea>hi</>
> XML 1.0: <textarea>hi</textarea>
> 
> 2. by-position arguments (attribute key is optional)
> ConciseXML: <person "Mike" "Plusch"/>
> XML 1.0: <person first="Mike" last="Plusch"/>
> 
> 3. Dot notation for path
> ConciseXML: "abe".<foo color="blue"/>.bar
> XML 1.0: 
> <execute_path> "abe" <foo color="blue"/> bar </execute_path>
> 
> 4. Attributes keys and attribute values can be any object,
>     not just strings.
> ConciseXML:
> <person name="Mike" age=28 married=true birth=<date 1968 1 10/> />
> XML 1.0:
> <person>
>  <field key="name">"Mike"</field>
>  <field key="age">28</field>
>  <field key="married">true</field>
>  <field key="birth">
>     <date><field key="year">1968</field>
>                <field key="month">1</field>
>                <field key="day">10</field>
>     </date>
>  </field>
> </person>
> 
> 
> A chapter in a book published by Wiley titled: 
> "Water: Simplified Web Services and XML Programming"
> has a chapter that describes ConciseXML. The chapter
> is also posted on-line at:
> http://www.waterlang.org/water_book_2002/concise_xml.htm
> Half of the contents of the book is available here:
> http://www.waterlang.org/water_book_2002/index.htm
> 
> ConciseXML compatibility with XML 1.0 takes the following
> form:
> 
> 1. Any XML 1.0 expression is also a ConciseXML expression
> 2. Any ConciseXML expression can be written in XML 1.0
> 3. There is no information loss when converting between
> ConciseXML and XML 1.0
> 4. ConciseXML supports both the XML 1.0 and "concise" forms
> within the same document. One can be nested within the
> other.
> 
> ConciseXML has the same properties that would be desired
> for XML 2.0.
> 
> I would like to see ConciseXML adopted as a standard.
> Clear Methods, my company, is willing to freely license it
> to everyone.  Christopher Fry and I are the co-creators of
> ConciseXML and the Water language.
> 
> _Mike Plusch
> CTO, Clear Methods
> http://www.clearmethods.com
> http://www.waterlang.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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