- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:15:40 +0000
- To: public-xml-core-wg <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Per Paul's request, here are some comments we might consider as the basis for a reply to the OP. . . ht writes: > The reviewer recommended that "XML Base (Second Edition)" be returned for > further work due to substantial issues. > > Additional comments about the specification: > I don't feel any necessity to make XML Base dependant of XLink > Normatively > > I have nothing againt XLink, but > * XLink already depends normatively on XML Base (chicken and egg) The specific dependencies are not circular > * XInclude and a lot of other specifications until now doesn't depend on > XLink. > > I understand that reusing normative part defined in XLink is a good idea, > but it gives a very bad messages on dependencies between specs This is the part I don't understand -- what's the "bad message"? > For me, it seems to be the right time for the W3C to prepare the future of > XML and make some clean distinctions between what has to be in the Core and > what has to depend on the XML Core > > 10 years after XML, it seems the big deal to propose to reshape XML 1.0, > Namespaces in XML, XML Base, XML:id and Associating Style Sheets with XML > documents into a big XML++ proposal, and cut some SGMLish feature from XML > Then define the XPointer model above for defining clearly XInclude as > *the* inclusion process and XLink as *the* linking model. There might or might not be support for this, but it will take a long time. In the mean time, we're just trying to clean up the situation a little bit at a time, in keeping with our charter. We couldn't embark on any kind of XML++ effort without a new charter. . . > > Furthermore, giving an uptodate graph of all the dependancies between > XMLish publications seems to be a high necessity (the one already > available hasn't been updated since 2000 : > http://www.w3.org/2000/03/xmldep/) Good idea! ht - -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFwKSMkjnJixAXWBoRAhixAJ96SVJxZWEtUKtV6vOYbJK0go7Q8QCdG0er 1qDHj/t7rGsfnt78R5UBxBI= =0YXv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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