On Fri, Aug 28, 2026, at 09:32, Bethan Tovey-Walsh wrote: > I know we've talked about writing a schema for the XML representation of an IXML grammar, but it might also be useful to write some standard stylesheets, or guidelines for people to write more restrictive schemas to validate their grammars? I don't think we're doing enough to make use of the affordances offered by the XML representation for IXML. Going a bit tangential to the previous discussion, I think the great potential of iXML is to be something where the prospect of taking over the maintenance of someone else's grammar is attached to a better feeling than being asked to take over the maintenance of someone else's mass of regular expressions. I think anything that makes that more true (or more reliably true) for people is a really good thing, and probably more important for adoption than any argument from the grammar having greater expressive power than regular expressions. -- Graydon
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