Re: Ending DTD proliferation at the W3C

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Paul Libbrecht <paul@hoplahup.net> wrote:
> I did not talk about *speccing* DTDs (oh boy!). Neither did Michael I believe.

Mike talked about publishing new DTDs under TR. Seems like speccing to me.

> I disagree implied attributes are a misfeature and, while processing external subsets was optional, it has been always performed and has been a faithful way to perform namespace mixes.

Processing external subsets is optional.

> So… are you telling us you want spec-makers to not produce XML collections anymore?

I'm not sure what "XML collections" means, so I can't answer.

> Or you prefer that we happily ignore the namespace features of XML the way HTML5 has done it (meaning… you push the art of mixing to the spec writers and readers)?

I prefer that you make an editor (or system input method; see
Typinator for Mac) macro for inputting those terrible URLs into your
XML source explicitly.

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Thursday, 16 January 2014 09:50:57 UTC