- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 8 May 97 21:57:08 BST
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At the risk of appearing to try to be starting things all over again, I'd like to advance a straw person which Tim Bray suggested in passing in a conversation a few weeks ago: Let's make the core and link (and style) language specs just that: Descriptions of the grammar of valid and well-formed XML documents. No mention of processing, error policy, behaviour, etc. Semantics, when it must be referred to, would be in terms of abstract structures and relations, NOT 'the processor'. All discussion of such matters, across all three parts of our charter, would be diverted to a fourth, and last, document, with a title like "Conformant XML processors and applications". This is not just a move to buy time, I think it would actually vastly simplify the core documents, improving their readability and hence the immediacy of their impact. ht
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