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At 8:43 PM +0000 2/6/03, Dave Pawson wrote: >The design goals for XML are > * XML shall be straightforwardly usable over the Internet. > * XML shall support a wide variety of applications. > * XML shall be compatible with SGML. > * It shall be easy to write programs which process XML documents. > * The number of optional features in XML is to be kept to the >absolute minimum, ideally zero. > * XML documents should be human-legible and reasonably clear. > * The XML design should be prepared quickly. > * The design of XML shall be formal and concise. > * XML documents shall be easy to create. > * Terseness in XML markup is of minimal importance. > >Which ones are wrong today? I don't think any of them are wrong today, but 4 and 5 were not fully satisfied by the spec that was produced. >What's missing? A clear description of the information from the document that a processor must pass to the client application. Processor behavior was severely underspecified in XML 1.0. What was specified was almost by accident. >Were the goals too broad? No. >Or have they been interpreted too many times in too many different ways? No. >Is No. 3 out of date? No. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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