RE: [relax-ng] Proposal: remove annotations from the compact syntax

[Michael Fitzgerald <mike@wyeast.net>]

When you say ugly, what do you mean: ugly to look at or ugly to implement or
use?

I thought of an alternative, less unattractive syntax for annotations (very
late, I admit). Instead of:

namespace a = "http://relaxng.org/ns/compatibility/annotations/1.0";

[ a:annotation [ "glip glop glorp" ]

We have this:

namespace a = "http://relaxng.org/ns/compatibility/annotations/1.0";

a:annotation { "glip glop glorp" }

So that:

- it looks less like XDuce and more like an XQuery element constructor,
without the element keyword
- it looks more like the rest of RNC, is less verbose
- any namespace-qualified name without an element keyword could be
considered a foreign element in RNC

My apologies for introducing the idea so late, but, well, I had to get it
off my chest.

Mike