Re: Suppressing ixml:state

Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> writes:
> "Processors may provide a user option to suppress that attribute"
[…]
> So what is it we want to allow the user to suppress? Is it only the
> "ambiguous" token, or is it the whole attribute?

I’ve always understood the intent of the user-option as being to
suppress the attribute itself, not any of its values.

  “I don’t want this thing appearing in my output, my downstream users
  don’t care, don’t want to know, and will only be pissed off if I
  include it.”

Implementations can, of course, provide user options to include the
phase of the moon in the output, so we don’t have to approach this
problem in a fine grained manner.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica