Re: Pragma Proposal ready for review from Dave Pawson on 2021-12-14 (public-ixml@w3.org from December 2021)

From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 12:31:31 +0000
To: John Lumley <john@saxonica.com>
Cc: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>, ixml <public-ixml@w3.org>, Tom Hillman <tom@expertml.com>
Message-ID: <CAEncD4fDOQU06Rzx0c0AKH1ziV1R95_GwR2A8bHXH8=t-wCoSw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 12:13, John Lumley <john@saxonica.com> wrote:
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> > On 14 Dec 2021, at 09:06, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > "We can do this in ixml by expanding the grammar, splitting each
> > nonterminal into two rules, one producing a visible serialization and
> > one hiding the nonterminal on serialization." Is this desirable |
> > needed? Perhaps nice if it can be automated + hidden from the user.
>
> From my practical experience this is desirable when you’re working with very deep production trees, in complex grammars for programming languages.

IMHO, ixml should not | has no need to address this level of
complexity. We have other tools (XML) for that?
May just be my view, and an outside one.

For me, ixml ~> md rather than xsd?

regards


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