- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
- Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:36:30 -0500
- To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, John Lumley <john@saxonica.com>, Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com>
- Cc: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>, public-ixml@w3.org
On Tue, 2024-03-05 at 12:04 +0000, Steven Pemberton 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. 笺 - comment 🗨 - speech bubble. But iXML already uses punctuation differently to other syntaxes i know of, so i’m not sure i accept that argument. If semicolon can be "or" then % can introduce metadata. -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org
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