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> > My most radical idea was to extend the notion of VI (Value Indicator) from just '=' to a set of characters, according to the major categories of declared values. Thus instead of name="value" for all attributes, we could have had name@"value" for IDREF/S, name&"value" for ENTITY/IES, name%"value" for notations and name*"value" for NMTOKENS, leaving name="value" for CDATA only. And an ID attribute wouldn't need a name or surrounding quotes at all, if we tacked it onto the GI with a separator, like '!'. > Similar idea to FtanML which freely borrows from JSON: married=true (boolean) size=23.4 (number) name="John" (string) dimensions=[12, 14] (array of numbers) colours=["red", "green"] (array of strings) id=#ABC123 (ID) (not in the published FtanML paper, because we never worked out the details, e.g. how to mark references) If you're changing the syntax, I don't see any merit in retaining XML's weird set of attribute types. Michael Kay Saxonica
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