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

[Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>]

On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 09:11, Michael Fitzgerald wrote:
> 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). 

Probably naive, but why not simply include XML snippets?

> namespace a = "http://relaxng.org/ns/compatibility/annotations/1.0";
> 
> a:annotation { "glip glop glorp" }

would become

 <a:annotation>glip glop glorp</a:annotation>

Might be considered ugly, but at least people are used to this kind of
stuff by now :-)

Eric
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