SGML, XML and SML

[Don Park]

>which is hardly complex. Presumably, your SML would be
>something like this
>
>[1]    canonXML    ::=    (Comment | #xA)*  element (Comment | #xA)*
>[2]    element    ::=   ( Stag (Datachar | element  | Comment )* Etag )
>| Mtag
>[3]    Stag    ::=    '<' Name NSDecl? (Att NSDecl?)* '>'
>[4]    Etag    ::=    '</' Name '>'
>[5]    NSDecl    ::=    #x20 'xmlns:' Prefix '=' '"' Attvalchar* '"'
>[6]    Att    ::=    #x20 Name '=' '"' Attvalchar* '"'
>[7]    Datachar    ::=    '&amp;' | '&lt;' | '&gt;' | (Char -
>('&' | '<'
>| '>' | #x9 | #xA | | #xD ))
>[8]    Attvalchar    ::=    '&amp;' | '&lt;' | '&quot;'  | (Char - ('&'
>| '<' | '"' | #x9 | #xA | #xD))
>[9]    Name    ::=    (Prefix ':')? NCName
>[10]    Prefix    ::=    'n' [1-9] [0-9]*
>[11]    Comment   ::=    '<!--' (Char+ - (Char* '-->')))? '-->'
>[12 ]  Mtag   ::=    '<' Name NSDecl? (Att NSDecl?)* '/>'
>
>Which is the same level of complexity. You take out PIs and
>add comments and empty start tags.

No.  SML will be simpler even.  Remove comment and everything
related to namespace out.  Namespace is not supported at SML
level.  Assuming that attribute support is left in SML, SML can
work with the XML Namespace spec.

Best,

Don Park    -   mailto:donpark at docuverse.com
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>
>
>Rick Jelliffe
>
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