- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <clbullar@ingr.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:20:43 -0600
- To: "'Steven Pemberton'" <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>, "'www-tag@w3.org'" <www-tag@w3.org>
Right. As discussed, a way well-formed only documents can work for multi-document composition by adding more properties to the xml: namespace which is essentially, the fixed properties of the XML processor. That may not sit well with some, but it is the price of overcoming well-formedness limits with regards to declaring system-wide properties. It is practical to acknowledge that data can never be completely separated from processing meaningfully. len From: Steven Pemberton [mailto:Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl] XML wasn't really designed with composability in mind, and in the XForms group we are particularly feeling this, because XForms are compositions of several XML documents. You can't just paste an XML document into the middle of another, you have to do all sorts of other things too; since an embedded document can't have an XML prolog, you have problems with, principally for the XForms group, identifying attributes of type ID.
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