RE: SOAP's prohibiting use of XML internal subset

What exactly is being discussed here? That there should be a mechanism
for subsetting XML technologies (which sounds practically untenable) or
that there should be "officially blessed" subsets of XML technologies
(which is a one size fits all solution which won't satisfy everyone). 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com] 
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 2:19 PM
> To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
> Cc: www-tag@w3.org
> 
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> Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> > It may be good to start out by separating the notions of subset (a 
> > proper subset of U{XML}) and profile (a cross-product of subsets of 
> > U{XML}).
> 
> Hey, my stake is on the ground on this one: check out 
> http://www.textuality.com/xml/xmlSW.html - the right answer is
> 
>       XML1.1
>       - DTDs (& hence entities)
> +namespaces
>    + Infoset
>   + xml:base
>   ==========
>       XML-SW
> 
> Which *nobody* will need to subset and *anybody* can build on 
> (with the sole exception of the MathML people, who are stuck 
> with XML 1.* forever because they want names for all their 
> special characters).
> 
> However, it may be the case that not everyone will 
> immediately say "hey you got it right Tim, argument over."  
> Hard though it may be to believe, people may disagree about 
> what should go in XML-NG. -Tim
> 
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Received on Monday, 2 December 2002 17:26:33 UTC