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>Except there is one problem: At a given point you are
>addicted. Strangely, though, all the RNC detox centers are empty.
Problem? No, that's called 'shear joy'.
.. and I think those centers are going to start filling up....
BTW, here is a (complete?) list of RNC symbols, for those of you who wish to
check in:
() general purpose pattern grouping
{} only used on element and attribute patterns,
to enclose the entire content model of that element or attribute.
| choice
& interleave
, sequence
= only placed to the right hand side of a <define> name.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Fitzgerald [mailto:mikefz@w...]
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:08 AM
To: K. Ari Krupnikov; xml-dev
Subject: Re: XUL Compact Syntax Study Now Online - Is XML too hard
for Aunt Trudie?
K. Ari Krupnikov wrote:
> Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...> writes:
>>At 4:25 AM -0400 4/16/04, Gerald Bauer wrote:
>>>I wrote up the compact syntax study after reading
>>>up on the compact (non-XML) syntax for Relax NG - a
>>>schema language for XML. See http://www.relaxng.org
>>>for details. In case of Relax NG the compact non-XML
>>>syntax clearly beats the XML syntax.
>>
>>A lot of people feel that way. I don't though. I personally find the
>>XML syntax to be significantly easier to read and understand than the
>>RELAX NG compact syntax.
>
> I can second that. It's good that James gave us two alternatives, but
> every time I have to read RNC, I have to go back and check what the
> symbols mean. Admittedly, I don't read a lot of RNC, or I would have
> learned the syntax. But as a causal user, I find the XML syntax a
> better trade-off between "self-describing markup" and ease of
> authoring. I doubt Aunt Trudie is a less causal user than I am :=)
In my experience, once you're familiar with RELAX NG, the compact syntax
becomes natural
-- to the point that you don't want to live without it. In fact, I suspect
that any RNG
aficionados would much prefer RNC and can't go back to the XML syntax for
one reason: It's
much quicker to develop schemas by hand, once you have RNG in you back
pocket. And
twice-blessed by Trang, which can translate RNC to DTD, RNG, or XML Schema,
you don't get
yourself painted in a corner. Except there is one problem: At a given point
you are
addicted. Strangely, though, all the RNC detox centers are empty. %^}
Mike
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