Re: Reverting the language describing marks

Seconded

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Tomos Hillman
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On 17 May 2022, 14:20 +0100, Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com>, wrote:
> "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
>
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> Norm Tovey-Walsh
> Saxonica