Re: ACTION (2021-08-004): Steven to create list of existing requirements

I strongly feel that namespaces should be a requirement for v1: is there scope for discussion on the call?

Should we also be talking about visible (XML) to invisible (non-XML) parses (or is that what is meant by 'other serialisations')?

Tom

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On 14 Dec 2021, 11:38 +0000, Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, wrote:
> I think this covers them all.
> Steven
>
> Requirements for ixml v1
>
> * Convert context-free non XML documents to XML.
> * Unicode.
> * Simple.
> * Don't require the user to understand the fine points of parser theory
> * Therefore deal with ambiguity.
> * Flexible
> * User-oriented, not machine-oriented: user needs weigh heavier than
> machine needs.
> * No need to do what other things in the XML pipeline can do better (eg, no
> transformations)
> * Don't have to be able to produce any particular XML (eg no Markdown to
> XHTML).
>
> Extra possibilities
>
> * Use other serialisations than XML
>
> Identified additions for v2
>
> * Textual insertions
> * Element renaming
> date: iso; regular.
> regular: s?, day, s, month, s, year.
> s: -" "+.
> day: digit, digit?.
> -digit: ["0"-"9"].
> month: "January"; "February"; "March"; "April"; "May"; "June"; "July";
> "August"; "September"; "October"; "November"; "December".
> year: digit, digit, digit, digit.
> iso: year, "-", numeric^month, "-", day.
> numeric^month: digit, digit. {numeric^month is serialised as <month>}
> * Context sensitivity
> * Namespaces
>