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RE: MicroXML

  • From: Philip Fennell <Philip.Fennell@marklogic.com>
  • To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>, Dave Pawson <davep@d...>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:51:43 -0800

RE:  MicroXML

Unless I’ve missed something, there’s nothing here that would prevent MicroXML from being embedded ‘in-line’ in XML 1.0 is there?

 

I do a fair bit of work with XForms and XProc, not to mention XSLT, so the things that I’d see as important are:

 

1) Can I embed fragments of MicroXML in an xforms:instance, an xproc:inline or an xsl:template?

2) Can I traverse the structure using XPath?

3) Would my XForms, XProc or XSLT processor need a specific serialisation mode?

 

Beyond those questions, from what I’ve seen so far, I can think of no reason not to use MicroXML as a light-weight data format but I’d imagine I’ll still be using XML 1.0 + Namespaces for XForms, XProc and XSLT. After all, it’s the data that’s more the problem than the XML languages we process it with, right?

 

 

Regards

 

Philip

 

From: James Clark [mailto:jjc@jclark.com]
Sent: 13 December, 2010 12:40 PM
To: Dave Pawson
Cc: xml-dev
Subject: Re: MicroXML

 

 

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk> wrote:

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:29:14 +0700

James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> wrote:

> I can definitely see advantages in this option.  I would summarise it
> as:
>
> - no colons in element or attribute names,
> - except that attribute names can start with "xml:";

What do you lose if you omit this?
reserved xml: xxx ?

 

 

I think it's a basic requirement to be able to use the built-in xml:lang, xml:id, xml:base attributes.  Note that XML already reserves element/attribute names starting with [Xx][Mm][Ll]. I would say it's nice feature that these built-in attribute names look different from normal attribute names.  I see no awkwardness and no difficult for the learner.

 

James

 

Use full XML 1.0 (no longer micro?)
What you gain, simpler parse, no exceptions for the learner?



> - there's nothing to stop you having an attribute called "xmlns", but
> MicroXML will treat it just like any other attribute

I.e. no exceptions, simplicity. A plus IMHO



>
> Big upside: guaranteed to be namespace well-formed; simpler.
>
> Big downside: some XML infosets cannot be expressed.

If you want that, go use XML 1.0



>
> I would be interested to know whether others also find this option
> preferable.

Lose the exception for me James.
Too little gain for more awkwardness.




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regards

--
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk

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