Pragma Proposal ready for review

Hi folks,

The proposal for pragma that Michael and I have been working on for some weeks is now ready for review in advance of our meeting next week:

https://github.com/invisibleXML/ixml/pull/10

Our hope is that this will give us a clear idea of which minimal features of pragma would need to be supported for a 1.0 release of iXML so that

1. Pragma implementers will be able to do something useful with them in the future,
2. non-pragma supporting processors know enough to know what they can ignore for "fallback" behaviours.

To that end, the proposal details

• Identified Requirements and Desiderata
• A proposed syntax
• Several use cases with worked examples
• Suggested updates to the iXML grammar

Our hope is that we can make a decision on whether or not we include any pragma considerations for a release at XML Prague, if we decide that such a release is a goal of the group; if we do decide to do both of those things, I would like to (co-)write a paper as part of making a noise for release.

Next week's meeting is shaping up to be quite busy, so if folk could possibly take a look in advance, it might save us some precious time on the day!

Thanks,
Tom

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Tomos Hillman
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