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RE: xml 2.0 - so it's on the way after all?

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• Subject: RE: xml 2.0 - so it's on the way after all?
• From: david.lyon@c...
• Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:14:09 +1100
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Quoting Derek Denny-Brown <derekdb@m...>:

> I do think there is real value in attempting to simplify XML to the
> point that the type of people who are inclined to roll-their-own, get
> it right.

Exactly.

> simplifying it to that extent will likely lessen XML's usefulness to in
> significant set of significant, existing scenarios.
> So long as those customers are satisfied with XML 1.0, why does
> that matter?

It won't.

> Maybe calling it XML 2.0 is part of the problem.

ok, lets call it high-speed xml or something.. I don't know..

> Calling something 2.0 typically implies that it subsumes everything
> in 1.0. Many of the goals that people have been discussing on this
> thread are directly contrary with that implication.

I don't see why the old xml encoding need to neccessarily need to
be buried that quickly with a new data encoding strategy.

For example, even when you encode:

  <Carparts Item>
   Product_Name&="Selespede gearbox"
  </Carparts Item>

doesn't in any way make:

 <Carparts Item>
   <Product_Name>Selespede gearbox</Product_Name>
  </Carparts Item>

not xml.

The only thing that really changes is that there is an
introduction of a "record-like" arrangement where there
are data elements and section nodes. Instead of just
everything being a node. It's a conceptual enhancement
that brings xml closer to the way we are using it in
the modern world.

Programmatically, in the app, almost nothing changes.

 String : partname;

 partname := GetStringElement("/Carparts Item[55]","Product_Name");

something like that should work whether the underlying data
is encoded in xml 1.0 or it has been done my data-encoding
strategy.

Certainly, the parser that I have works for both equally
well, only you don't get to know the data-type for xml 1.0
until after it gets to the application program.

Best Regards

David




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