Re: 1343 messages later

At 08:35 PM 2000-06-13 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>
>> Reading this again, I'm realizing the genius of Microsoft's proposal, which
>> lets Tim and I both feel right, papers over the current philosophical
>> battle, and lets us all go back to work.
>
>It lets everyone *except me* go back to work, you mean.  As editor of
>Infoset, I can't accept creative ambiguity, or echo it.  I have to
>have a definite resolution: what does the Infoset expose?
>(It has to expose the overt attribute value in any case, so this
>means "does it expose an absolute URI + locator, or not?")
>

Can we make this a little more propositional?  I would suggest that we
pencil in "No" as the provisional answer and ask who can't live with that?
Mindful that BASE information such as is known is already in the InfoSet,
as is the attribute value per se.  The other can be computed by anyone who
wants it, given what you already have.

Al 

>-- 
>John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
>	"You need a change: try Canada"  "You need a change: try China"
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>

Received on Tuesday, 13 June 2000 22:17:07 UTC