Re: Pragma Proposal ready for review

I'm not sure quite how to say this, but this proposal shocked me, because 
it is not at all what I thought we had agreed we were doing.


I was expecting a proposal for a syntax to communicate with 
implementations, that further had no defined semantic content; something 
that allows things along the lines of


    {! ignore ambiguity}
    {! serialize all parses}
    {! serialize to json}


(though without specifying the "ignore ambiguity" bits, which would be 
specified by implementations).


Any other issue, particular semantic ones, such as namespaces, text 
insertion and so on, are separate use cases, that need to be discussed 
separately, but have absolutely no place in pragmas, because pragmas are 
exactly about things that are not standardised.


Steven 


On Tuesday 07 December 2021 18:15:43 (+01:00), Tom Hillman wrote:


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
Pragma implementers will be able to do something useful with them in the 
future,
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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