- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:50:49 -0400
- To: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
- Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 12:40 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > [...] > Given a random +xml vocabulary that I > don't know anything about, I want a license to try to resolve the > fragment identifiers using application/xml semantics. +1 This is what I call the "XML Promise" - any application is licensed by the XML Specification to (attempt to) process any XML document using generic XML rules. This is why, for example, it's not OK to have a table of byte offsets embedded in an XML document, to speed up subsequent parsing -- an application that was unaware of this convention could change the document without updating the offset table. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org
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