[closed] Re: Required serialization methods support

"Florent Georges" <fgeorges@fgeorges.org> writes:
>     The method option controls the serialization method used by this
>     component with standard values of 'html', 'xml', 'xhtml', and
>     'text' but only the 'xml' value is required to be supported. The
>     interpretation of the remaining options is as specified in
>     [Serialization].
>
>   Is there any particular reason 'text' is not required to be
> supported?  Personnally I would require conformant implementations to
> support xml, text and xhtml, but at very least, I think both xml and
> text are essential.

The WG considered this (on 5 Feb 2009) and decided that the XML method
was the bare minimum needed. We don't plan to make any changes in this
area in V1.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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