Re: random comments on 2nd LC of WebArch

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 08:46, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux wrote:
> A few  points I noted while skimming through 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-webarch-20040816/

and your 3rd point seems to be...

> Data formats
> - in 4.2.3 "Experience suggests that the long term benefits of
> extensibility generally outweigh the costs" is probably too positive
> without consideration for a trade-off; while I think this will be one of
> the topics on which the QA WG will comment, I suggest that some
> qualification along "benefits of a well-defined extensibility
> mechanism..." instead
> 
> - in 4.2.4, "Each application must define how namespaces interact and
> what effect the namespace of an element has on the element's ancestors";
> is this application-dependent, or language-dependent? I believe the
> latter, at least in most cases
> 
> Also, maybe having a good practice associated to this section would be
> of interest; although the TAG has still open issues on the topic, I
> think a well-crafted Good practice for XML languages is achievable.

Please stand by for a reply in substance. I hope it won't take
more than a few weeks.

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Friday, 20 August 2004 21:38:10 UTC