Re: Starting point from James Clark on 2012-07-24 (public-microxml@w3.org from July 2012)

From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:51:49 +0700
To: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
Cc: public-microxml <public-microxml@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CANz3_EbPSU_6ymiXYr8PVoRCdgDdF_mE_pR=9Y1-xV2i15kqVg@mail.gmail.com>

>> - empty element tags eg <foo/>
>> - comments
>
> empty elements and comments are essential, however

I would lean towards including them, but I think we need to ask why
and make a reasoned argument for them.

I can think of arguments against them:

- empty element tags increase complexity without increasing expressiveness
- XML comment syntax is really verbose/complex/ugly; JSON seems to
have managed just fine without comments

James

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