- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:59:33 +0000
- To: public-xml-core-wg <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>, www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>
The draft of 3023bis, the proposed new media type registration for the
XML media types, beyond the formal obligatory statement that the XML
spec itself is the "published specification", includes (only) the
following paragraph about the application-level semantics of XML
documents:
An XML document labeled as application/xml or text/xml, or with a
'+xml' media type, might contain namespace declarations,
stylesheet-linking processing instructions (PIs), schema
information, or other declarations that might be used to suggest how
the document is to be processed. For example, a document might have
the XHTML namespace and a reference to a CSS stylesheet. Such a
document might be handled by applications that would use this
information to dispatch the document for appropriate processing.
This paragraph notably fails to include bibliographic references to
the XML Namespace specification, or the XHTML specification, or the
XML Stylesheet Processing Instruction specification, or the (draft)
XML Processor Profiles specification.
Should it do so? If so, should it attempt to be exhaustive, or should
it say something more along the lines of "There are lots of relevant
specs out there, here are some strategies you might use to find them"?
ht
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