Regarding XML 1.1

> The XML Core WG is pleased to announce the publication of the
> first Working Draft of XML 1.1.
>
> Published at:
>	http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11

With XML Schemas being positioned as replacement DTDs, I was (probably
naively) wondering if it would be useful to split the XML specs in two
pieces: the well-formedness part (XML document definition that is) and
the DTD part (<!ELEMENT, etc, the SGML stuff).

The rationales being: why would people (now and future) have to
swallow the DTD validity part of the XML spec if they don't need it
(because they'll use XML Schema and the Infoset).

It would make the XML spec smaller (get rid of all the validity
constraints).

I'm not suggesting that this been brought in the XML 1.1 requirements,
and it's probably not a new idea (sorry I don't have time to search
for prior art here) but is this something being thought about for a
XML 2.0 or an XML lite version ?

Is that on some XML roadmap/activity statement somewhere ?

Thanks.

Received on Friday, 14 December 2001 10:32:00 UTC