xml:id RE: [sc34wg3] Compact syntax requirement question

[Jirka Kosek]

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Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

> I can assure you that there are lots of people doing all their work in
> LTM, and wondering why we even bothered creating XTM. I think XTM was
> necessary, and that it should remain the main topic map syntax, but it
> seems to me that it's good that we can offer these people something
> standardized.

To support Lars Marius opinion, this is very similar to RELAX NG schema
language (which is written in XML syntax) and its compact syntax (which
is plain text based). While XML based syntax is great for interchange
and automatic processing, almost all my friends and colleagues write
their schemas in compact syntax because it is faster to type, easier to
write and easier to understand.

I think that important requirement is to have 1:1 mapping between CTM
and XTM. This can be achieved if design of compact syntax is carefull
and expects some reasonable defaults (to save typing declarations). IMHO
there should be also escape mechanism (like [...] in RELAX NG compact
syntax) which is able to serialize arbitrary XML content that is outside
of XTM namespace (e.g. documentation).

				Jirka

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