Re: MicroXML design goals

Well put Andrew.
  Wholly agree.

regards DaveP

On 14 August 2012 16:55, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If a consumer needs the features those attributes provide, they should
>>> just use xml.
>>
>>
>> I guess this is where I put on my selfish hat. I do want to use xml:lang,
>> and to a lesser extent xml:space, but I do not want to pay the full cost of
>> XML to do so.
>
> Well for me xml:lang is application level thing (as discussed), and
> xml:space is only ever really needed to selectively not strip
> whitespace when whitespace stripping is performed by the parser, and I
> would expect this to be disallowed in the spec anyway.
>
>> If you remove xml:base and xml:id, I think coverage of the other two in
>> John's draft is less than half a page.  It's hard to see that as an
>> excessive complication.
>
> Again I don't see the need for xml:base and xml:id, both are
> application level for me.
>
> In fact it annoys me when xml:id is used because it imposes the spec's
> concept of an id... for example I might want to use '12345' for an id,
> or a phone number etc.
>
>
> --
> Andrew Welch
> http://andrewjwelch.com
>



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