Re: 8. Are prefixes/namespaces allowed?

Mike Kay:

> > The inevitable consequence of that, I fear, would be that
> > the specification will be such a large subset of XML that it serves no
> > useful purpose. A better criterion might be to include a feature only if
> > there is no alternative practical way of meeting the same requirement.
>


Andrew Welch:

> Agreed, "mixed content and nothing else".
>

And attributes!

It's worth answering the question, in as few words as possible: why
persevere with SGML-style markup at all? Why not just use something like
JSON and be done?

For me the reasons I will always need something approximately like XML are:

Container elements, mixed content and attributes.

As long as MicroXML has those, I could probably live without everything
else, though I accept that we really do want to have some things in
practice (particularly comments & empty element syntax).


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