• From: David Lee <dlee@c...>
• To: "liam@w..." <liam@w...>
• Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:28:26 +0000

> 
> > I am trying to solve sequences of arbitrary XDM as well as XML
> > documents
> 
> Then I think you want a single document containing an xdm-sequence
> top-level element. If you want to preserve sequences of strings then you
> need per-item markup.
> 
> Liam
>   

Bunch of other objectives as well that preclude the whole thing being a single document ... such as incremental generation (aka log file or long running source),  
support for large documents (streaming  of various flavors), simple concatenation etc.
And yes per-item markup of some sort is needed.

I have pretty much worked it out here but it's not entirely satisfying.
The biggest issue now is what parts of XDM I want to sacrifice as I can't have *everything* ... things like node identity are hard,
user defined types require access to an in-scope XSD, base-uri requires some additional markup etc.
So by not having everything I can't satisfy everyone (even myself ).

So my evolving goal (not yet updated in this document:  http://xml.calldei.com/XDMSerialize 
 - I have 8 distinct use  cases so far )  is to cut back on the fidelity  and aim for more usability,
in particular streaming, log files, and getting basic XDM typed data across applications which I feel is a high value ... 



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David A. Lee
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