- From: Peter Murray-Rust <Peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 23:28:00 GMT
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
In message <3.0.32.19970617165211.00a4f4d0@pop.intergate.bc.ca> Tim Bray writes: [...] > > This is something along the lines of the the colon-prefixing that > was proposed by both Microsoft and the Japanese WG8 submission, e.g. > <book:price>11.99</book:price>. This has two downsides: it requires > a change in XML-lang (albeit not much, just allow ':' in namechar), and > you can't get all the information you need from a normal SGML parser > without some postprocessing. It has a big upside in that all the > information you need is right there in the document and lightweight > processors get at it easily. It's more in the XML style in that > all the info is right there in the instance and you don't need > any help to figure out what's going on. I've read the subsequent discussion and tried to understand the implications of implementing #2; my impression is that there is a non-trivial overhead. I'd like to support #3, as it's the easiest to write software for both at parse time and postprocessing (and those are important XML criteria). As a dirty webhacker I appreciate that this may be less elegant than AFs, but I think it's robust and easily understood. P. -- Peter Murray-Rust, domestic net connection Virtual School of Molecular Sciences http://www.vsms.nottingham.ac.uk/
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