[E-Lang] Minimal-XML (was: Draft Kernel-E DTD & Sketch of translation to debuggable Java)

[Mark S. Miller]

At 09:29 PM 9/26/00 , Mark S. Miller wrote:
>The only remaining issue is what to do about XML data that isn't in 
>Minimal-XML?  Here's a strange idea.  If we're going to deal with data in 
>weird format Foo by parsing it into Minimal-XML, then we should do this as 
>well when weird format Foo is XML itself!  Each parse-node from parsing XML 
>would be represented as a Minimal-XML element.  This will be explosively 
>more verbose than the original XML, which, if XML's history is any guide, 
>should only make it more popular ;)

Scratch that.  The Minimal-XML guys already have a converter they call the 
Minimizer to convert XML into Minimal-XML.  It's much better than my above 
suggestion.


         Cheers,
         --MarkM