- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:58:40 -0500 (EST)
- To: paul@prescod.net (Paul Prescod)
- Cc: gtn@rbii.com (Gavin Thomas Nicol), www-tag@w3.org
> I don't understand what you are saying. Nobody is talking about a > universal processor. What I'm hearing is that people want to sniff the > namespace (either from the MIME header or the XML itself) and then > *choose* an XML processor based on the namespace. XSLT stylesheets with > an HTML root-element are one example where this would not work. Not if these stylesheets were described with an XSLT specific media type. Unfortunately, the XSLT Rec has already let that cat out of the bag[1] by requiring */xml be used. This puts a damper on our ability to define consistent namespace dispatch behaviour for the */xml types. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Introduction (last paragraph) MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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