We had Yet Another Alternative Syntax for XML presented at XML Prague, under the name SML. I fear that all such efforts are doomed to failure. The benefits of the alternative syntax over XML, however much better it is, aren't great enough to justify the cost of being different. It's like improving on the QWERTY keyboard.

(And I'm not one of those with an emotional attachment to the current syntax)

Michael Kay

Saxonica

On 10 Feb 2018, at 23:54, Henry Luo <henry@p...> wrote:

As said:

It seems obvious that the most important thing about XML is that it was the first.

People did a lot of that with XML just because there was no other alternative.

So it might be time to look into alternatives, like Mark (https://mark.js.org). :-)

On Sun 11/2/18 1:48 AM, Lauren Wood wrote:

There's a shorter piece on XML.com, written by Tim Bray.

https://www.xml.com/articles/2018/02/10/xml-20/

cheers,

Lauren

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:34 AM, u123724 <u123724@g...> wrote:

Since nobody else seems to bother, I've written a blog post on the
occasion of the 20th anniversary of the publication of the XML 1.0
recommendation at http://sgmljs.net/blog/blog1802.html , focussing on
XML in the larger markup context.

Right now there's also a discussion going on at
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7wgxfx/20_years_of_xml/
so come join in if you feel like it.

Best,
M. Reichardt
sgmljs.net

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