Re: [XBL] XBL 2.0 Semantic-free XML elements

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Cyril Concolato wrote:
>
> I, too, agree with this comment. I don't understand the notion of 
> semantic free. An element is given semantic not by pure magic but 
> because there is a specification describing its semantics. There is no 
> such thing as (universally) semantic-free XML element. There are XML 
> elements whose semantics are unknown to a particular implementation. 
> What you probably want to say is that any implementation has a behavior 
> when encountering an element whose semantics is not known to that 
> implementation. And you want that same behavior to apply to XBL elements 
> in error. But, to solve the issue, I would propose to remove ", treating 
> them as they would any arbitrary semantic-free XML element". I think 
> "ignore" is enough.

Fair enough.

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