Re: Moving xmlFunctions-34 forward

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Dan Connolly writes:

> On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 16:13 +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> [...]
>> So, would the following be more likely to attract consensus:
>> 
>>  Change the story in the draft to include a notion of 'constrained
>>  elaboration', during which a specified set of namespaces act as
>>  quotation signals.
>
> That's counter to my intuition, which is: any namespace might
> include quotation mechanisms, so unless you know otherwise,
> you have to assume every element quotes/controls its children.

First, are we clear about what is meant by quotation?  I didn't make
it clear in my original posting, I realise -- I meant, only, quotation
_with respect to elaboration_.  I'd be surprised if many languages
will want to do that, but, I guess, your intuition differs from mine,
and I'm certainly not claiming a uniquely priviliged insight here.

Second, even supposing the worst case, in some sense, all this means
is that almost every application will start from the elaborated
infoset treating its _own_ namespace as a quoting signal.

Examples would help. . .

ht
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