- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 07:51:54 -0500
- To: "'www-tag'" <www-tag@w3.org>
At 10:01 PM -0800 2/6/02, David Orchard wrote: >Tim, > >This is really great stuff. While I think that PIs should also be lopped >off, I wouldn't. PIs are quite useful in practice. Eliminating them would hurt way too much. It is useful to be able to step out of the markup for processor-specific uses like PHP and stylesheets. > and XInclude for entity replacement and an optional XML Schema >validation level added, I can certainly live with this. These can be layered quite cleanly on top of well-formed XML for those who need them. I don't see any reason for putting them in the core spec. With regard to schemas (and DTDs for that matter) I do wonder where default attributes fit in. Just part of the PSVI but not the pre-SVI I suppose. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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