- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:31:25 +0100
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Cc: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
* Norman Walsh wrote: >| http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xlink11-20050707/ section 4.3 suggests >| to use default attribute values for xmlns:xlink, this is obviously an >| incorrect and dangerous suggestion, please remove suggestions to use >| default attribute values from this section or, preferably, remove the >| entire section since documents that make use of these suggestions are >| by definition not interoperable. > >The Core WG has considered this comment. We'll add a note to indicate >that providing such defaults in an external subset may mean that they >are not seen by browsers and other parsers that do not read the >external subset. How would this look like exactly? It seems you will keep the section and the suggestion to use such defaulting but note that maybe that's a bad suggestion; wouldn't it be better to simply point out that this is a bad idea and is recommended against? >We will also add a note to indicate that the technique does not have >any analog in XSD, RELAX NG, or other modern infoset-based validation >languages. This is fine by me. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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