- From: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:14:08 -0400
- To: public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org
At 04:03 PM 9/10/2007 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: >/ Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com> was heard to say: >| At 01:06 PM 9/10/2007 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: >|>[...] >|>bearing in mind that namespace fixup says: >|> >|> [Definition: Some steps can produce XML documents which have no >|> direct serialization (because they include nodes with conflicting >|> or missing namespace declarations, for example). To produce a >|> serializable XML document, the XProc processor must sometimes add >|> additional namespace nodes, perhaps even renaming prefixes, to >|> satisfy the constraints of Namespaces in XML. This process is >|> referred to as namespace fixup.] >| >| Can anyone produce a pipeline that exemplifies the process known as >| "namespace fixup"? > >I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but [...] What I mean is this... Above, you say "This process is referred to as namespace fixup." So, if there is a "process", surely XML Proc can be used to describe the process and implementations can run it. So, I was asking whether you, or anyone within shouting distance, could write the pipeline that describes the namespace fixup process. I actually suspect that it is more of a rhetorical question; that it is not possible to write such a pipeline, and that "namespace fixup" is not quite a process so much as a set of guidelines. If it is a process, then let's have the pipeline and declare victory. If it is not a process, let's admit it and provide whatever guidance we can and in as much detail as we need to make everybody comfortable with the probability of multiple implementations performing "namespace fixup" in reasonably consistent manner, where "reasonably consistent" is as adjudicated by bankers and other conservative businessmen, not jazz musicians. I take it that Alex is not yet comfortable. As a result, neither am I. I am not likely to be comfortable until at least all of the implementors in the WG are comfortable. I appreciate that this is slowing us down on the road to recommendation. Regards, Murray
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