- From: Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:26:33 +0200
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:03:41PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > / Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com> was heard to say: > | On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:36:55PM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > |> > |> at http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink11/ > | > | Watching the limited quotes from http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ > | 1/ I'm relieved to not read xml-dev anymore > | 2/ I wonder if trying to please *anybody* about XLink is worthwhile > | > | Can someone remember me who we are doing that for ? I'm feeling nauseus > | already about it, I hope we have a good reason to reopen that mess. > > In the modern world, it's not reasonable to expect the schema to > provide attribute defaulting for you (lots of stuff is sent around > only as WF XML, still other documents have multiple schemas, plus > there's no way to specify conditional defaults so you winde up with an > *enormous* number of unnecessary, defaulted attributes even when you > have them) so the fact that xlink:type="simple" is required for > conformance to XLink makes conformance impractical. Okay, but we also expected xmlns:xlink="..." to be DTD defaulted IIRC, though a single occurence is usually sufficient so it's less of a problem I suppose. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ |
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