Re: Troubles Implementing Recommended Profile in Web Browsers

While I sympathize with Henry's characterization, I think
that it more a matter of acceding to reality. The currently
named "Recommended" profile should probably be the "Full
XML" profile. A profile that stops short of !Entity parsing
and attribute value additions through the DTD would best
reflect current browser practice -- call it "Partial XML"
perhaps. Failing to acknowledge reality will hurt the spec;
acknowledging it and offering an upgrade is perhaps better
gamesmanship.  

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From: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
To: Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org>
Cc: XProc WG <public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Troubles Implementing Recommended Profile in
Web Browsers
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:26:28 +0100

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> I don't see how we can back down on that.
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