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Re: MicroASCII proposal

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
• To: stephengreenubl@gmail.com
• Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:06:13 -0500

On 1/13/11 8:37 AM, Stephen Green wrote:
> Is this "reductio ad absurdum" spoken in jest on MicroXPath, etc?

Rick wasn't fond of simplification in 1999 either, so I'd guess yes.

> I guess the Micro-ing of almost everything 'XML' and beyond does
> make some sense for people implementing MicroXML wish to
> know what else they can implement as part of a related micro-culture
> more easily than if they had implemented full XML. Can they chop
> out implementation requirements in XSD/validation, XPath, XSLT,
> etc? I would think such people would already have a full
> implementation of ASCII before they started.

Yes - the comparison doesn't really work.

We could, of course, express all communications in binary.  That would 
be nicely minimal.  11101010101101010110011011010110.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/

• References:
  • MicroXPath proposal
    • From: John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com>
  • MicroASCII proposal
    • From: rjelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>
  • Re: MicroASCII proposal
    • From: Stephen Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>