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Re: hackable xml

• From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
• To: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:19:18 +0100

On 26/07/2010 12:08, Andrew Welch wrote:
> 5. Lone inbuilt entites such as "&" in the lexical XML are
> automatically parsed as& and not an error (#2 above might enable
> this). Same goes for a lone "<".

why this? With it it means that the resulting files are not XML, so the 
new format couldn't use the various xml processing tools unles sthey 
allow a custom parser to be provided, in which case you don't need a new 
format, you could presumably hook up a json 9or html5) parser that 
reported xml sax events.

Without it, it's a variant in the usual simplifications going back to 
sml (if not before) the usual reason that nothing actually happens is 
that while it's easy to agree that a simplification would be good, it's 
a lot harder to agree on the details 9as this message shows:-)

David


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