XInclude 1.1 (Was: Re: Agenda for XML Core WG telcon of 2012 April 18)

>> On 2012 February 14, we published
>> XInclude 1.1 Requirement and Use Cases
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude-11-requirements/
>> summarizing the requirements and use cases for possible
>> enhancements to XInclude addressing the issues:
>>
>> * @xpointer when parse="text"
> 
>   Sounds reasonable, though I wonder about implementations.
> 
>> * copying attributes from the xinclude element to the root
>>   included element
> 
>   Internally libxml2 preserves the old xi:include element
> so the attributes can be found (and as well as boundaries of inclusions
> when people need to roll them back). But I'm surprized to suggest
> the existence of a "root included element" especially as part of
> our charter, to me that doesn't exist, it may exist but people
> will include well balanced chunks or even pure text, and I'm not
> sure you could even guess in advance if those attributes would be
> preserved or not. I find that confusing.

Indeed, but in my experience in 99% fragments with one root element are
included so it makes sense to cater them specially.

Of course we can transfer additional metatadata using PIs instead of
attributes. This would work even for text nodes or well balanced chunks.

    Jirka


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