Re: more examples of namespaces needed in output (was: Re: call a week from today, right?)

What's a porm? ;)

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On 13 Apr 2021, 06:24 +0100, Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org>, wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-04-12 at 19:53 -0600, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote:
> > [...]
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> > I wonder whether namespace support is a potential use case for some
> > kind of generic annotation syntax that will be processed by
> > processors that understand the annotations and ignored by others.
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> A markdown grammar to XHTML was mentioned;
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> xhtml:title ⇒ "###", -space, -text
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> which, given the input
> ### socks in the desert: a poem
> might be intended to produce,
>    <xhtml:title>socks in the desert: a porm</xhtml:title>
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> A more extreme example might be converting turtle/n3  to rdf/xml,
> although i don't see why ixml should be expected to do that. Or,
> converting EQN input to MathML.
>
> But again, i view ixml as something used to enable  further processing
> - just as  Steven's motivating text has described it -  so that as long
> as you can use XSLT or XQuery on the result  i'm happy.
>
> Liam
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