• From: Dave Pawson <davep@d...>
• To: <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 08:20:39 +0000

On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 21:13:42 -0000
"Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...> wrote:

> I would like to tweak and simplify XML so that people trying to
> decide between JSON and XML(lite) could see that there's no downside
> to going with the XML route.
> 
> I don't want to invent something completely new, because that just
> means there's 3 players in town instead of two.  If we do something
> completely new I'm sure it will just wither on the vine.  I'm hoping
> for more of a point version fix in tools to accommodate the revised
> format rather than a completely new set of tools (e.g. tool version
> goes from 5.2 to 5.3 with the update).
> 
> Removing the internal DTD and CDATA sections, along with restricting
> to UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings is probably 80% of what's required.
> Doing something with namespaces would also be appealing.


+10



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• References:
  • Where is XML going
    • From: "David Lee" <dlee@c...>
  • Re: Where is XML going
    • From: Ben Trafford <ben@p...>
  • RE: Where is XML going
    • From: "David Lee" <dlee@c...>
  • Re: Where is XML going
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
  • RE: Where is XML going
    • From: "David Lee" <dlee@c...>
  • Re: Where is XML going
    • From: Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@g...>
  • Re: Where is XML going
    • From: David Lee <dlee@c...>
  • Re: Where is XML going
    • From: Ben Trafford <ben@p...>
  • RE: Where is XML going
    • From: "David Lee" <dlee@c...>
  • RE: Where is XML going
    • From: Ben Trafford <ben@p...>
  • Re: Where is XML going
    • From: Rob Koberg <rob@k...>
  • Re: Where is XML going
    • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...>