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I think the very fact that relax uses a non-xml lexical structure, and the obvious lexical clumsiness of XSLT (of which its xml infoset makes great sense), identifies an opportunity to improve the lexical structure of XML. Historically, I doubt XML was intended by its designers to represent schemas, programming language, etc or really intended for users to spend much time editing with an editor or looking at as a text file. But we all do these things. Maybe XML 1.3 should acknowledge XML use is larger than imagined, and define an alternative (preferred) lexical syntax. For example <K> <A v="3" j="8" > <C/> </A> Cool </K could be more succiently serialized into a more human and machine readable format. Haskell and python are excellent examples of making code more readible using indentation instead of seperator tokens. K A b=3 j=8 C "Cool" or if you must have delimiters, (K (A b=3 j=8 (C) =Cool)) This does mean that every application might need two parsers.
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