- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:27:41 -0400
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>, public-microxml <public-microxml@w3.org>
James Clark scripsit: > - empty element tags increase complexity without increasing expressiveness > - XML comment syntax is really verbose/complex/ugly; JSON seems to > have managed just fine without comments I think both of these, plus NCRs, are reasonable concessions for hand-written documents. If MicroXML documents are to be machine-generated only, they are not necessary, but the minute people want to write such documents themselves, they will want the ability to add human-accessible annotations plus the ability to comment out currently unwanted text. And given comments, you pretty much need PIs, or people will abuse comments for PI purposes. -- There is no real going back. Though I John Cowan may come to the Shire, it will not seem cowan@ccil.org the same; for I shall not be the same. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest? --Frodo
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