I do like FtanML ... In fact look forward to a possible presentation at some upcoming conference with a few key concepts borrowed/stolen ...
so how far have you gotten to get FtanML/XSLT/XPath/XQuery ? :) ( thats the thing about XML ... even with flaws it has an unsurpassed adopted toolchain ) -----Original Message----- From: Michael Kay [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 2:12 PM To: David Lee Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [xquery-talk] Text Markup vs Data Serialization - Was RE: min max and mix > > My opinion is that the compromises made to allow this "Dual Use", while not > perfect and not quite equal in each use case, are really amazing. > I cannot think of any other markup or serialization format which does better > at accommodating both use cases as equal citizens reasonably well. XML does a good job at this but it leaves some well-known problems. I tried to do better in FtanML (Balisage 2013). For example FtanML: * allows element and attribute values that are typed as integers, booleans, or sequences of anything without resorting to a schema for example married=true, height=1.86, children=["John", "Mary"] * distinguishes whitespace that is present for readability purposes from whitespace that's part of the content * eliminates the artificial distinction between elements and attributes, allowing the same values to be held in both Michael Kay Saxonica _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
