FW: XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0 is a Candidate Recommendation (Call for Implementations)

FYI, here is an excerpted version of this announcement.
See
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2007JanMar/0069
for the full message.

paul

-----Original Message-----
From: w3c-ac-members-request@w3.org On Behalf Of Ian B. Jacobs
Sent: Friday, 2007 March 16 10:06
To: w3c-ac-members@w3.org
Subject: XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0 is a Candidate Recommendation
(Call for Implementations)

Dear Advisory Committee Representative,

I am pleased to announce that XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0 is a
W3C Candidate Recommendation. 
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-xbl-20070316/ 

. . .

There were two Formal Objections. Despite these, the Director
supports publishing the XBL2 specification as a Candidate
Recommendation; see the full discussion below.

This specification will remain at the Candidate Recommendation
stage until two complete and interoperable implementations exist
(and not before 1 September 2007), as described in the document
status section below. There is no initial implementation report.


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Disposition of Comments
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. . .

Finally, for issues 9 and 163 regarding xml:id, the Director
supports the decision to not use xml:id, because of the position
expressed by certain browser vendors that requirements to support
xml:id would be ignored. However, the Director requests that
during the Candidate Recommendation phase that the XBL community
solicit feedback from authors and implementors on whether XBL
should rely exclusively on xml:id instead of having its own "id"
attribute.  Further, the Director suggests that the XML
Coordination Group should discuss xml:id with browser vendors to
see if their reluctance can be addressed, e.g.  by more clearly
defining the rules for the handling of elements with multiple
declared IDs.

. . .

Received on Friday, 16 March 2007 15:43:20 UTC