• From: "Clark C. Evans" <clark.evans@m...>
• To: Don Park <donpark@d...>
• Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:32:25 -0500 (EST)

I'd call it SXML...

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Don Park wrote:
> o No Attributes (ouch!)

Hmm.  On the plus side, this would eliminate
the famous "attribute or element" debate.

> o No PI, Comments, Notations, or CDATA sections
> o No document type declaration

Cool.

> o UTF-8 encoding only

I'm kinda ingnorant... would it still be
possible to handle oriental character sets
with UTF-8 ? 

> o No non-character entity references
> o No predefined character entities (I am iffy on this one)

Sure.  

> What do you guys think?  

Sounds like many many people are using XML
in this way *anyway* -- why not give it
a name?


Clark


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