On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> In celebration of XML's 10th anniversary yesterday, I thought it
> might be time to post a suggestion.
>
> SGML became ISO 8879 in 1986. Ten years later, the XML process was
> busily examining how to build a subset of SGML, keeping the good
> parts and discarding the rest. XML 1.0 was the result.
>
> I suspect my suggestion is fairly obvious: it's time to look into
> creating a subset of XML that hits the current 80/20 point -
> creating something that is (learning from the previous project)
> compatible with XML parsers, but which (again) does more by doing
> less.
In 2002, I proposed XML-SW (http://www.textuality.com/xml/xmlSW.html)
which retains namespaces but discards DTD's (thus entities and
notations and so on) and the <!DOCTYPE>, also rolling in the
Information Set and xml:base. I still think it's a good idea.
<!DOCTYPE> is actively harmful when used in wire protocols. I'd so
like to get rid of it.
-Tim
