Re: sXBL: Extensibility and Versioning

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> 
> It seems the latest sXBL Working Draft does not discuss extensibility or 
> versioning of the format. It seems reasonable to expect that the 
> specification that replaces sXBL makes changes to the language that 
> would cause sXBL fragments to behave in unexpected ways or fail in old 
> processors that expect such fragments to be sXBL fragments.

sXBL will be an exact subset of XBL2. We've been very careful about that. 
In addition, for sXBL the SVG error handling rules are used, so 
unrecognised elements cause the processor to abort. So this won't be a 
problem. (We may want to also add to sXBL a rule saying that unexpected 
attributes are in error too, in case we expect to add attributes that 
change the processing model with no new elements.)

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