Re: Starting point

On 7/24/2012 3:51 AM, James Clark wrote:
> - empty element tags increase complexity without increasing expressiveness
A design goal for me would be a 1-1 mapping between the data model and 
the serialization form.  Is that possible? It would rule out empty tags, 
and comments, and numeric entities and character references, except 
where required to preserve well-formed-ness.  It would also require the 
elimination of whitespace normalization of any form, and eliminate the 
use of the BOM in UTF-8 documents. Also, namespace prefix mapping would 
have to go, or else namespace declarations would have to be done in a 
completely canonical way, which seems unpalatable?

-Mike Sokolov

Received on Tuesday, 24 July 2012 11:26:25 UTC