- From: Florent Georges <fgeorges@fgeorges.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:23:33 +0200
- To: "James Fuller" <james.fuller.2007@gmail.com>
- Cc: mozer <xmlizer@gmail.com>, "Norman Walsh" <ndw@nwalsh.com>, public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org
2008/8/27 James Fuller wrote: > yes, but isnt that what declarations are for ? > e.g. that foreign element *needs* a declaration before it is be used > as as step Yes, but the point is to enable the processor to differentiate a processor call when the developer forgot the declaration (bug in the code) from something like a "throw-away-and-forget-foreign-element." If you just say: "if it is declared, then that is a call, else that is a ignorable foreign element," the processor can't make the difference anymore. Unless... you require to identify extension processor namespaces (like @extension-element-prefixes in XSLT.) Regards, -- Florent Georges http://www.fgeorges.org/
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