RE: Open systems / Freedom ( was RE: The Web as an Application)

> Basically this list has achieved nothing in months as we keep 
> coming back to this issue of using the XML namespace, which 
> you seem to see as a blocking issue and so there has been no 
> discussion of what attributes one might actually want to 
> specify, and what they might mean.

Actually, I would vastly prefer no namespace attributes, but I see that
as backwards incompatible with application/xml.  There is no
way that @href for example hasn't been used in something tagged as application/xml
and that in that use it doesn't mean a value conforming to RFC 3986.

MicroXML might work around that issue with a new media type declaration,
but I see a fair bit of resistance in that community to declaring MicroXML
"For The Web".  YMMV

There is a page on the wiki with a set of proposed attributes + meanings.


Peter

Received on Monday, 23 September 2013 14:45:22 UTC