> > 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
