- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:53:49 +0200
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: (wrong string) ėl-Massieux <dom@w3.org>, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, <public-xml-id@w3.org>
On Friday, June 10, 2005, 9:31:36 PM, Dan wrote: DC> On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 15:22 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: >> / Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> was heard to say: >> | Hmm... it seems pretty important to keep "C Impacts on Other Standards" >> | around until xml:id has been implemented in those other places. >> | >> | It's not clear to me whether you plan to keep it or not. >> | >> | If it stays in, I'm satisfied. >> | >> | If not, I need to think it over. >> >> The plan is to remove it, so please consider if that's acceptable based >> on the current evidence of interoperability. DC> OK, I took a look at the implementation report, and I see DC> "The libxml2 library has had support for xml:id since version 2.6.9 DC> released Apr 18 2004. The support is switched on by default, and xml:id DC> attributes when not in error are handled like DTD ID attributes. As a DC> result they are available as ID for libxml2 XPath, XPointer DC> implementation, as well as for XSLT, XML DSig and other tools or DC> languages based on the libxml2 library since then." DC> -- http://www.w3.org/XML/2005/01/xml-id-implementation.html Based on this, I had a look at the implementation report. I was astonished. I will send a separate mail explaining why. DC> Chris, I think you expressed some sympathy for my comment. Be advised DC> I'm now satisfied. If you're not satisfied by the WG's response, i.e. DC> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-id/2005Jun/0011.html I do have some sympathy and also have some sympathy for the contrary view that XML Core should not be held to task until the CSS WG the (nonexistent) DOM WG, etc add support for xml:id. I think that a section on impact on other specifications has value regardless of whether they have been implemented, because new implementations are always produced. Conditional guidance (if you implement xml:id and you implement CSS then ..." is always valuable. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead
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