- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 07:55:51 -0500
- To: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
Martin Bryan wrote: > The problem I have is the one you seem to recognize yourself. If someone > adds a keyword to a catalog because he has facilities for interpreting it, > how can he be sure that someone without those facilities can use it? Is it a > requirement that the addition of keywords to a catalog means that the > catalog can only be used on sites that support that keyword? We could require conforming processors to ignore keywords that are not in the standard. Then processors that want to do something else are not strictly speaking XML processors but they are backwards compatible with them, and strict XML processors are forward compatible in a completely predictable way. Paul Prescod
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