In 1999, there were a group of us working on a subset of XML (we called SML at the time) that had a simpler information model and syntax limitations so it'd be

In 1999, there were a group of us working on a subset of XML (we called SML at the time) that had a simpler information model and syntax limitations so it'd be easier to work with. It seems that any simple encoding of XML onto JSON might find the deliberations interesting (if quaint and outdated): http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sml-dev/message/0 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sml-dev/message/0