> Do you know if anyone is working on a generic compact syntax > pre-processor for use with arbitrary XML, not just relax ng > schemas?
I'm not even sure I understand the question. You mean a tree serialization syntax for any tree that is more compact than XML, yes? I.e., something that would represent the same structures XML does, but take a lot fewer keystrokes? Well, we could certainly say that all end tags be represented by merely "</>". Heck, we could entirely skip end-tags that are redundant. And we could skip the quotation marks around attribute values that cannot have whitespace in 'em. For that matter, in cases where an attribute name could be determined by the value, we could not bother to put in the name and the "=". ... (I'm not at all sure whether I should be explaining the joke or not ... :-)
