- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:45:58 -0800
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > Similarly, if we were to extend XML's xml:preserve attribute to have a > third value, we couldn't do so without checking how all the different XML > processors would handle the new value, because XML doesn't define how to > handle unknown values. Indeed it also doesn't define in useful detail how > UAs are to handle the two values it _does_ introduce, and the result has > been that everyone has come up with different meanings for those attribute > values, and some of the interpretations can conflict (e.g. SVG's > requirements for processing xml:space differ from the requirements of some > proprietary languages, and thus the two can't be combined). I assume you meant xml:space. In any case, XML doesn't define anything about how a UA is to handle XML. That's not an accident. XML is used way beyond the realm of things that can be recognized as user agents. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Refactoring HTML Just Published! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321503635/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA
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