Re: 2.0 exclusions

On 4/4/11 3:07 PM, "Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com"
<Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com> wrote:
>We have the following statement in the 2.0 requirements:
>
>"Optionally from this set, exclude some subtrees (of element nodes) or
>exclude some attribute nodes. Can only exclude regular attributes, not
>attributes that are namespace declarations. TBD if xml: attributes can be
>excluded"
>
>We are silent on the TBD question in the 2.0 documents.

The exclusion syntax is XPath, right, so I guess it's a simple question:
can you articulate xml:lang, xml:id, etc. via XPath?

>It seems to me that it is application dependent on whether xml attributes
>can be excluded sensibly and that we remain silent on the subject, and
>remove "TBD if xml: attributes can be excluded" from the requirements
>document.

I think we should just answer the previous question, yea or nay.

-- Scott

Received on Monday, 4 April 2011 19:14:24 UTC