- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:05:49 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
tbray@textuality.com (Tim Bray) writes: >Simon St.Laurent wrote: > >> >I presume we agree that applications should not attribute >significance >> >to the difference between: >> >> Most applications will not; some applications may. It is frequently >> convenient to ignore that difference. > >Have to think about it some more, but I think it is incorrect and >dangerous for application behavior to depend on such a difference - >with the single possible exception of applications of the >document-editing class. -Tim I don't know what your criteria for "document-editing class" are, but my latest project is a context-aware processor for working with XML as text. Attribute quoting styles are among the many bits of text included. (It's the next-generation of my Gorille work for XML 1.1 etc.) I don't expect pure _consumers_ of XML to care about the difference, but there's lots of machine-editors or processors that might usefully care. Ruling it out as dangerous seems to me like we've forgotten about how cool it really is that XML's a text-based format with some room for variation. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org
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