• From: Stephen Green <stephengreenubl@g...>
• To: Dave Pawson <davep@d...>
• Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:29:12 +0000

> <para xml:id='abc'>text</para>
>
> Would this convince xml applications
> to treat this as an id... without the uxml schema for the instance?
> I'm wondering how grey the area is between uxml and xml 1.0?
>

If people want something as powerful as,
say, JSON, I reckon the attractiveness of
a profile for XML which says that, even
without a schema, in "an instance of
 <para xml:id='abc'>text</para>" the
attribute should be treated as an ID. I
feel like the MicroXML / uXML profile
should allow for this to give us maximum
power still with maximum simplicity. So
this feature would get my personal +1. It
seems to me to warrant the inclusion of
a meaningful colon in the profile. If that
goes beyond the main use case for uXML
(e.g. if people want the uXML/MicroXML
profile to in itself only treat content as
strings on top of which types have to be
layered with say schema, etc) then it
looks to me like a valid case for a uXML++
(MicroXML++) profile, as it were, where
features such as IDs and types can be
applied directly in the XML (albeit still
treating the XML mainly as simple text).

----
Stephen D Green



On 24 December 2010 15:53, Dave Pawson <davep@d...> wrote:
>
> Given a schema definition
> <define name="para">
> <element name="para">
>  <attribute name="xml:id"/>
>  <ref name='inlines'/>
> </element>
> </define>
>
>
> and an instance of
> <para xml:id='abc'>text</para>
>
> Would this convince xml applications
> to treat this as an id... without the uxml schema for the instance?
> I'm wondering how grey the area is between uxml and xml 1.0?
>
>
>
> --
>
> regards
>
> --
> Dave Pawson
> XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk
>
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• References:
  • xml:id, uxml + John Cowens schema
    • From: Dave Pawson <davep@d...>