Re: Some possible MicroXML design goals

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote:
> 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?

Yes, according to at least one edition of XML 1.0.

>> 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?

It would be nice to say "identical", but I don't think we can quite
manage that because of (at least) attribute value normalization.  On
the other hand, "similar" feels a bit weak.

James

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