Re: Some possible MicroXML design goals

Good start!
I suggest discussing #7 ...
What does that mean exactly.  Probably my ignorance more than anything.

Let's take this simple html5 doc

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Or perhaps this

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Is either of these both valid microxml and html5 ?











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David A Lee
dlee@calldei.com


On Jul 23, 2012, at 10:22 PM, "James Clark" <jjc@jclark.com> wrote:

> I think we've now waited long enough for news of this CG to percolate
> through to interested parties, so let's get cracking.
> 
> I suspect that one of the hardest parts of this effort will be to get
> consensus on what the point of MicroXML is. I don't want the process
> to be too heavyweight here, so perhaps one way to get started is to
> generate a short list of design goals, analogous to the design goals
> at the start of the XML 1.0 spec.  Here's a very rough first attempt:
> 
> 1. The syntax of MicroXML shall be a subset of XML 1.0
> 2. MicroXML shall define a data model as well as a syntax
> 3. MicroXML shall be dramatically simpler than XML as regards its
> specification, syntax and data model
> 4. MicroXML shall be designed to complement rather than replace XML,
> JSON and HTML
> 5. MicroXML shall support the needs of documents, in particular mixed content
> 6. MicroXML shall support Unicode
> 7. MicroXML shall facilitiate the creation of documents that are
> simultaneously well-formed MicroXML and valid HTML5
> 
> James
>

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