- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:53:22 -0400
- To: Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-microxml@w3.org
Stephen D Green scripsit: > Would it be feasible for (say, in future) a version of the spec to > not include the data model? I'm thinking back to the way the > XML included DTD and how DTD became a bit odd to be in the > spec once XML Schema came to the fore. The data model is entirely abstract: the use of JSON is just for explanatory convenience. Not to implement the data model means failing to report what any parser obviously needs to report: the names and nesting of elements, the names and values of attributes, and the character content and how it is mixed with child elements. What good would a parser be, for example, that failed to report element names? (By an oversight that has been carefully preserved, the XML Rec does not require parsers to do so.) I can't see any reasonable circumstances in which the data model goes away. -- Long-short-short, long-short-short / Dactyls in dimeter, John Cowan Verse form with choriambs / (Masculine rhyme): cowan@ccil.org One sentence (two stanzas) / Hexasyllabically Challenges poets who / Don't have the time. --robison who's at texas dot net
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