- From: Michael Rys <mrys@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 20:17:55 -0800
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>
Mike wrote: <cite> Additional features that would make XML more widely useful <cut/> would be desireable to further enhance the composability of XML documents, e.g. by a standardized mechanism allowing an XML parser to handle files containing multiple well-formed XML fragments but without an enclosing element, </cite> I actually believe that allowing multiple top level elements and even text nodes becomes increasingly important. XSLT already provides for serializing such "forests", XQuery can generate them and relational database systems are providing or planning to provide XML as a native data type that can contain element contents. As noted above, this is very useful for composability (XInclude may benefit as well) and is happening already. As to the discussion of subsetting XML 1.0, I can understand to factor DTDs out, although as others, I have some issues with dropping processing-instructions. Best regards Michael PS: Please cc me on replies, since I am currently traveling and have my list memberships reduced to keep email traffic manageable...
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