Re: Invisible XML 1.0 spec has been published

This is fantastic news. I've been using the Saxon/xslt3 implementation of
this for some time, ironically for ingesting JSON data into RDF and
transforming normalized RDF into "structured" JSON. I can see a time in the
not too distant future where XML exists primarily in its invisible state,
much like dark matter in the universe that is difficult to detect but binds
everything together.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2022, 07:43 C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
>
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