- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:33:40 -0800
- To: "'Yaron Goland'" <yarong@microsoft.com>, "'Jim Davis'" <jdavis@parc.xerox.com>, "w3c-dist-auth@w3.org" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
On Sunday, March 22, 1998 10:22 PM, Yaron Goland [SMTP:yarong@microsoft.com] wrote: > However, I must respectfully disagree with my learned colleague on the > matter of the DTD for LINK (I ALWAYS wanted to say that!!! =). As specified > in section 13, paragraph 1, a DAV XML parser MUST ignore any unknown XML > elements. Thus one can put any elements one wants into a link and know that > they will at worst just be ignored. Were we to change the DTD as specified > below we would be forced to put the same change into every DTD production in > our spec in order to specify what we have already specified in section 13. OK by me -- somebody wrote me privately and said that they don't think it's possible to express what we want (any element, interspersed with a src and or dst element) using XML DTDs anyway. - Jim
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