Re: Future of LISP. Alternative to XML. Web 3.0?

Juan R. wrote:
I propose something like

[#p This is [#b bold]]

for

<p>This is <b>bold</b></p>

I like it!
But a few points need to be addressed.


1. Attributes

Attributes are needed, both for compatibility with existing HTML/XML and
for the reasons expressed in the CanonML document. What do you propose?

[#div :id "one" :class "left red" This is the text.]
[#div @id "one" @class "left red" This is the text.]
[#div [@id one] [@class left red] This is the text.]


2. Whitespace

If <b>a</b> becomes [#b a], what about <b> a</b>?

Is [#a a] [#b b] equivalent to <a>a</a><b>b</b> or to <a>a</a> <b>b</b>?

And so on.


3. Namespaces

Intuitive solution?

[#fo:block Hello, world!]


All in all it looks good! Why don't you write it all down in a
semi-formal way and start an open source project to write an
implementation?

The implementation should translate between this representation and XML
(for compatibility) or better to and from SXML, as SXML is actually a
good internal representation of XML for Lisp programs.


Toby
.

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