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Simple Markup Language is too hard. We need Really Truly Simple Markup Language. Just like attributes (which make a document more difficult to parse, cause religious controversies, etc.), sub-elements are troublesome. We need to do away with sub-elements. Here is a typical RTSML document: <WarAndPeace> English translation of War and Peace in its entirety goes here (snipped for brevity). ... </WarAndPeace> With this setup, we can also do away with entities. RTSML is English-only, so we don't need Unicode character references. We don't even need the predefined entities. The parser treats *everything* between the one and only <Tag> and </Tag> as content. No more worrying about < and &. No more empty elements. No more having to "walk" a tree. Branches are inherently dangerous. When venturing out on branches while tree-climbing as young-uns, we'd usually bust our brains out. No more. Shinny up and down that single trunk without a bruise. Here's the first draft of the EBNF for RTSML: document ::= StartTag Stuff EndTag StartTag ::= ?<? Tag ?>? EndTag ::= ?</? Tag ?>? Tag ::= [0-'~']+ Stuff ::= [0-'~']* We expect RTSML 1.0 to be a WFeCes Recommendation on April 1, 1999 or day after tomorrow (whichever comes first). /Jelks xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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