Re: Browsers and profiles

Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org> writes:
> efficiently.  At the same time you've just turned off external subsets
> for all XML documents.

Right. And I assert that they will not fix that. Period. Henri's
decision to close WONTFIX your bug on this issue is the clinching
proof, I believe.

> Similarly, xml:id process becomes a pain in languages like XHTML where
> you already have an ID type attribute (i.e. "id") but that becomes
> solvable even if the processing is a bit hairy.

Maybe we should drop that from the recommended profile as well, then.

>> I have an inflamatory proposal.
>>
>> Rename the "recommended" profile to "comprehensive"
>> Rename the "basic" profile to "recommended".
>> Drop the "modest" profile into the bit bucket.
>
> I don't think of this as inflammatory but I do think there is still a
> problem.  I think we still want XIncude in the "recommended profile
> for browsers".  We don't have a profile that turns off external
> subsets and includes XInclude processing.

Yes. I'm throwing the XInclude baby out with the external subset bath
water. I don't think the browsers are going to implement XInclude
either. They're allergic to "X" words, it's never going to be part of
HTML, and it's a little tricky to get all the fallback stuff right.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh
Lead Engineer
MarkLogic Corporation
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