[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: XUL Compact Syntax Study Now Online - Is XML too hard for
another set of overloaded symbols. i guess if you only work in one language it's ok. but when you use 4 or 5 languages every day the symbol overload (and syntax for that matter) starts to get me down. how many \ escape chars do i need to make this symbol get through to the n'th parser (n-1?, n?, n+1?, etc). rick On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 03:42, Tom Gaven wrote: > >Except there is one problem: At a given point you are > >addicted. Strangely, though, all the RNC detox centers are empty. > > Problem? No, that's called 'shear joy'. > .. and I think those centers are going to start filling up.... > > BTW, here is a (complete?) list of RNC symbols, for those of you who wish to > check in: > > () general purpose pattern grouping > {} only used on element and attribute patterns, > to enclose the entire content model of that element or attribute. > | choice > & interleave > , sequence > = only placed to the right hand side of a <define> name. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Fitzgerald [mailto:mikefz@w...] > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:08 AM > To: K. Ari Krupnikov; xml-dev > Subject: Re: XUL Compact Syntax Study Now Online - Is XML too hard > for Aunt Trudie? > > > K. Ari Krupnikov wrote: > > Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...> writes: > >>At 4:25 AM -0400 4/16/04, Gerald Bauer wrote: > >>>I wrote up the compact syntax study after reading > >>>up on the compact (non-XML) syntax for Relax NG - a > >>>schema language for XML. See http://www.relaxng.org > >>>for details. In case of Relax NG the compact non-XML > >>>syntax clearly beats the XML syntax. > >> > >>A lot of people feel that way. I don't though. I personally find the > >>XML syntax to be significantly easier to read and understand than the > >>RELAX NG compact syntax. > > > > I can second that. It's good that James gave us two alternatives, but > > every time I have to read RNC, I have to go back and check what the > > symbols mean. Admittedly, I don't read a lot of RNC, or I would have > > learned the syntax. But as a causal user, I find the XML syntax a > > better trade-off between "self-describing markup" and ease of > > authoring. I doubt Aunt Trudie is a less causal user than I am :=) > > In my experience, once you're familiar with RELAX NG, the compact syntax > becomes natural > -- to the point that you don't want to live without it. In fact, I suspect > that any RNG > aficionados would much prefer RNC and can't go back to the XML syntax for > one reason: It's > much quicker to develop schemas by hand, once you have RNG in you back > pocket. And > twice-blessed by Trang, which can translate RNC to DTD, RNG, or XML Schema, > you don't get > yourself painted in a corner. Except there is one problem: At a given point > you are > addicted. Strangely, though, all the RNC detox centers are empty. %^} > > Mike > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative > of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> >
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