• To: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: magic competition (was Re: annotations outside validation)
• From: Kal Ahmed <kal@t...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:55:03 -0000
• Reply-to: kal@t...

11/13/01 2:15:48 PM, Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...> wrote:

>Simon,
>
>I like where you are going with that! Lets have an XML Magic
>competition!
>
>The problem: How to add stuff into the XML instance (be it linking info,
>super whitespace handling rules, extra encoding information, XML profile info
>etc.) with the following provisos:
>
>         A solution that can grow as we find more things we missed
>         Don't break existing systems
>         Make the new stuff easily round-trippable
>         No need to write custom parsers for the new stuff
>         Don't make life harder for app developers who don't give a rats
>         posterior about the new stuff.
>

Sounds like a set of requirements for groves to me. Perhaps we need not XML Magic but SGML Arcane Lore ? ;-)

Cheers,

Kal

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