XInclude questions

As outlined in the requirements document, http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude-11-requirements/
there seem to be two large questions to answer wrt designing XInclude 1.1.

1. What attribute should hold the fragment identifier?

   a. xpointer, despite the fact that XPointer is specifically about XML
   b. textpointer, as a parallel to xpointer
   c. fragid, deprecating xpointer

2. What attributes should be copied from the XInclude element to the
   root(s) of the included content?

   a. all of them
   b. all except href, parse, xml:base, and xml:lang
   c. only namespace qualified attributes
   d. only non-namespace-qualified attributes
   e. the attributes to be copied could be explicitly enumerated in a new attribute

   And there's the question of if a new attribute should be added to the included
   elements that enumerates the attributes copied.

For what it's worth, my initial inclinations are 1c and 2c. I really don't like 2e.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh
Lead Engineer
MarkLogic Corporation
Phone: +1 413 624 6676
www.marklogic.com

Received on Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:27:04 UTC