Re: Some possible MicroXML design goals

On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 09:22 +0700, James Clark wrote:
>  Here's a very rough first attempt:
> 
> 1. The syntax of MicroXML shall be a subset of XML 1.0

I.e. every well-formed MicroXML document shall be well-formed XML?
(some classes of change to XML are possible to help MicroXML, at least
in principle)

> 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

Is it productive also to say that such documents created as per (7)
shall have similar or identical interpretations in XML, MicroXML and
HTML?

Liam

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Received on Tuesday, 24 July 2012 02:47:43 UTC