Re: XML accessibility

to follow up on what Daniel Dardailler said:

> We must make sure that at least the DTD name (as a unique ID of
> some kind) appear in every XML documents, so that client-side
> binding to a local "more accessible" style is always possible.

The connection must be available to the client.  It could be
provided outside the individual XML file in site-wide metadata
that says 'In the absense of an explicit indication, you may
assume that pages [in this realm] conform at least to DTD="URI".'

> It's unclear to me reading the XML spec that this is the case
> in the definition of what "well formed" or "valid" means.

It is quite likely that semantic completeness such as we need
will not be the law of the XML land unless we explain it to
somebody.

-- Al

Received on Tuesday, 2 December 1997 09:06:20 UTC