Don Park posted a status
report for SML to xml-dev.
SML is alive and well and a strict subset of XML.
SML supports documents in UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings
only, with support for numeric and predefined entities.
DTDs are not used, nor are CDATA sections, the XML
declaration, processing instructions, and comments. A new
restriction, barring child element names from conflicting
with attribute names, should simplify processing SML
documents.
Colors are not part of SML itself, but a means of
describing the different types of nodes in various
documents. While SML only supports the 'black and white'
of name and value, other markup languages (XML, for
instance) contain other kinds of nodes which are marked
with their own colors. Leigh Dodds (an xmlhack editor) has
produced a
coloring book demonstrating how this works. SML is also
working with grove models and different grammar and syntax
possibilities.
SML development is proceeding on SML-
DEV, its own mailing list.
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