James's idea of what a document is may be a little abstract. I'll have
to read that later. There used to be a more or less accepted
distinction between Message Oriented formats and Document Oriented
formats.
len
-----Original Message-----
From: Rushforth, Peter [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 1:11 PM
To: Len Bullard
Cc:
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] "Introducing MicroXML, Part 1: Explore the basic
principles of MicroXML"
> It won't exactly get reinvented. Mauled and rebranded is more likely.
> I believe, and John can correct me, MicroXML is a JSON competitor
> because it turns out XML is not the best solution to the problem it
> was touted to solve: bits on the wire. On the other hand, let's say
> Microsoft makes noise with its Javascript patent, then JSON doesn't
> look too healthy and that is precisely why markup if not XML was
> invented and why keeping it free of application layers is A Good
> Thing.
I thought MicroXML was a document oriented solution. As such, t needsi
hypermedia controls.
http://blog.jclark.com/2010/12/more-on-microxml.html
If data also benefits in the process, good!
Peter
