Reverting the language describing marks

"C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com> writes:
> ixml meeting 17 May 2022

I realized on closer inspection that I’m not sure where this issue is in
the agenda:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ixml/2022May/0018.html

I didn’t actually create an issue for it because I felt like it was
editorial. But since it hasn’t been addressed yet, I want to make sure
we can discuss it today.

FWIW, the language that “@” makes an attribute is in the
specification all the way back to the first commit in October 2020.
I hope that restoring the previous language isn’t controversial.

I’m happy to discuss how we can make the specification less XML-specific
and more broadly applicable to other output formats in V.next, but we
want to get 1.0 out by Prague and, IMHO, there’s no way to redraft the
entire specification with a broader scope and get consensus on those
changes before Prague. 

Given that the normative output of an ixml 1.0 processor is XML, I don’t
think it’s wrong or misleading to describe the mapping in simple,
concrete terms. That’s true even if our future goal is broader.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

--
Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica