Re: ArchForms and LPDs

This is why XSD is important - you get type annotations on the parse
tree so e.g. a database can store floating point numbers as native
floats and process them massively faster. And unlike RNG, XSD
guarantees determinism, so you know which element will get which type.

In-place parsing isn't going to fly in a world with XInclude, nor for
that matter with NFC normalization.

Personally i'd be mre interested in a mini-xsd language that also was
useful for JSON, and had both XML and JSON syntax, than an attempt to
redo XML for a market that doesn't want it.

XML is already more complex than is useful. But we're stuck with it.

MicroXML was an attempt to make a subset, but it's too small and also
is incompatible, so you can't just use it with XML parsers and have the
rest of the stack work unchanged [1]. So why bother with it? It died,
as far as i can tell.

If there's a way forward it's neither in re-inventing lower layers no
in mourning the past. It's finding new use cases for what we have, and
new ways of working that have clear benefits for large groups of people
who know who they are and how this can help them.