[SCL] XML question

[John F. Sowa]

Folks,

All these points illustrate one fundamental point that has
been hammered home again and again over the past 50 years:

   There is no ideal syntax that can satisfy all requirements.

That is why we decided to define S/CL in an abstract syntax
that could be mapped to any particular syntax anybody would
require.

I suggest that we concentrate on a good clean syntax that
can be easily mapped to a wide variety of notations -- and
that we make sure that there is at least one that can
peacefully coexist with XML.

But since the XML world was never designed to meet the
requirements of human readability, logical deduction,
efficient computation, and many other good things,
we should not distort S/CL core just to make it conform
to the XML restrictions.

John