Re: Names beginning with "xml"

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:00 PM, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote:

> If micro-xml is sold as a simple data model with a simple language but
> most of the spec is describing the extra rules relating to features of
> the language not supported by the data model and require augmented specs
> from the full xml stack, then something has gone terribly wrong.
>

But most of the spec will not be describing such features, so we are safe
from this.



> If micro xml users need not invent new conventions for whitespace
> control and can go xml:space="preserve" then the micro xml data model
> had better have properties on text nodes to say that that are or are not
> ignorable white space.


All text nodes would be preserved by MicroXML/Option-A-prime, and so would
all xml:space attributes. This means that a space preservation layer has
everything it needs to deal with that matter even though it's not
explicitly represented in the MicroXML data model.


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