> I'd even argue for a minimum *without attributes* and without mixed content,
> no DTD subset, no namespaces, and only UTF8 support.
>
+1000
Yes please!
Cheers
Stephen Green
On 7 December 2010 14:42, David Lee <> wrote:
> I'd even argue for a minimum *without attributes* and without mixed content,
> no DTD subset, no namespaces, and only UTF8 support.
>
> A processor (parser/ language binding etc) for such a minimum would be much
> smaller, possibly "JavaScript" small/fast,
> and on equal footing with JSON.
>
> It would still be "XML" (i.e. parseable by full parsers) but vastly useful
> on its own.
>
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Welch [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 9:36 AM
> To: Pete Cordell
> Cc: David Lee; ;
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Towards XML 2.0
>
>
>> And presumably it still requires processing of internal DTD for attribute
>> default values and so on?
>>
>> The profiles seem more like XML 1.0 + XML Namespaces + other additional
>> profile specific stuff, rather than simplifications. Personally it's not
>> what I'm looking for.
>
> Nor me... I think the absolute minimum... just elements, attributes
> and angle brackets :)
>
> That's the tag line anyway.
>
>
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