On 9/15/2021 11:35 AM, Peter Flynn wrote:
> I am not
> convinced that the campaign for "simplification" of XML is a viable
> candidate for our attention.
I don't think a campaign is likely. I think, though, that
simplification has already happened in a lot of use cases. I probably
hear more about it because I encourage it, but people definitely seem
comfortable skipping namespaces and using the simplest possible
schemas. Stuff that either runs through W3C XML Schema processors but
uses 5% of the features, or Schematron, or such.
The last major campaign - SML - pretty well succeeded, if only for
creating YAML and encouraging JSON.
I still host these two remnants of past work:
http://simonstl.com/articles/cxmlspec.txt
http://monasticxml.org/
Neither gets piles of traffic, but the log files suggest that it's
steady, mostly search-driven.
Mostly I just talk about "markup" these days, and don't care if it's
HTML, XML, or something else that marks up text. (Markdown and ASCIIdoc
are mostly okay too.)
Thanks,
Simon
