Re: Alternative syntaxes for the prolog

• From: John Lumley <john@saxonica.com>
• Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 12:59:52 +0000
• To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
• Cc: Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com>, "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>, public-ixml@w3.org
• Message-Id: <22F98F58-5778-4D83-8663-8C2A1A77FFDE@saxonica.com>

%PDF is the magic ‘word’ at the start of a PDF file, as far as I remember. That’s partly why I suggested it.

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> On 5 Mar 2024, at 12:04, Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Why not use % - we don’t use it for anything else. And what about considering the prolog to be a property map, eg. 
>> 
>> %ixml version: “1.2”, foo: “bar” %
> 
> I'm strongly opposed to just using any character just because it is available. Good design should somehow suggest its purpose. % implies percentage. 
> 
> Steven

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