Invisible XML 1.0 spec has been published
"C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <[email protected]>
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During his talk at XML Prague this morning, Steven Pemberton announced that the Invisible XML 1.0 spec has been published. (Or so I believe -- I confess I was asleep at the time.) Invisible XML (often ixml for short) is a method for treating non-XML documents as if they were XML, enabling authors to write documents and data in a format they prefer while providing XML for processes that are more effective with XML content. The basic method is simple: if the non-XML notation of a file or data stream can be described by a context-free grammar, an ixml processor can read the appropriate grammar and use it to parse the non-XML data stream, returning an XML document representing the parse tree for the input. Multiple implementations of ixml exist, in a variety of languages (ABC, Java, Javascript, XQuery; an XSLT implementation is in development). Links to the spec, to tutorials, and to other supporting material (schemas, sample grammars, related tools, test suite) are available at https://invisibleXML.org Anyone interested in making it easier to apply the XML technology stack to non-XML data is encouraged to check out invisible XML. -- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Black Mesa Technologies LLC http://blackmesatech.com _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: [email protected] subscribe: [email protected] List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php