- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:20:53 -0700
- To: Ann Navarro <ann@webgeek.com>
- Cc: WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
> This is good, provided you mean this would be addressed as a formal part > of XLink 1.1 (or 2.0, or whatever). Currently the XLink specs suggests > that defaulting is available, however it has to defaulted in the DTD. > Requiring UAs to fetch and process that DTD to manage a document written > in the minimalized form would be a huge cost. Therefore, improvements to > defaulting would need to be in the XLink Recs that processors are based > upon. Sorry, that makes no sense. Every HTML DTD already has defaults, and I don't see anyone fetching the DTD in browsers. The semantics are simply hard-coded. That is the only reason why anyone would want an XHTML 2.0 -- because they can pre-code the DTD and default stylesheet if it is a standard format. Just define it in the spec as being defaulted. XLink should have better defaulting as well, but that is a separate issue. ....Roy
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