- From: Fang, Andrew <afang@ptc.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:28:02 -0500
- To: "Rui Lopes" <rlopes@di.fc.ul.pt>
- Cc: <public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org>
> > Fang, Andrew wrote: > > > If I decide to switch to a different vendor/implementation, I expect it > > to work. I may get some warning about missing components, but it should > > still complete the process. > > > > I totally agree. However, this will enforce the need of having a set of > standard processing components (such as XSLT, XInclude, Schema > validation, just to name a few). I'm not so sure about the process > completeness. I believe the processing model should state that a > conformant implementation is able to process a pipeline if it has all > the components available. > > Cheers, > > Rui I was actually thinking about a fall back mechanism here. Custom component should specify a fallback that must be implemented by all pipeline implementations. It could be as simple as passing the information along without any processing. Andrew
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