RE: XML Schema for XInclude

The WG approved the replacement of the Schema for XInclude with your
improved version.  It also approved adding a note warning users about
the interoperability problems inserting whitespace in the parse
attribute.

Thanks again for your comments.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Marsh [mailto:jmarsh@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:43 PM
> To: Jeni Tennison
> Cc: www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org
> Subject: RE: XML Schema for XInclude
> 
> Let me run your point back in detail to make sure I can communicate
this
> to the group correctly.
> 
> 1) XInclude uses the "value" of the parsed attribute.  This should
> probably be clarified that it uses the [normalized value] infoset
> property.
> 
> 2) The infoset [normalized value] property refers to the XML 1.0
> attribute normalization section.
> 
> 3) XML 1.0 collapses all whitespace runs into a single space, and
then,
> if the attribute type is not CDATA, it strips any leading and trailing
> spaces.
> 
> 4) The DTD fragment in the XInclude spec illustrates the parse
attribute
> as an enumeration - which is not CDATA and thus would strip leading
and
> trailing spaces.
> 
> 5) The Schema fragment in the XInclude spec uses an enumeration of
> xs:string, which does not strip leading and trailing spaces.
> 
> 6) So, the DTD and Schema fragments are inconsistent as to whether
> leading and trailing spaces are removed or not.  This needs to be
fixed,
> and xs:token looks like a good candidate fix.
> 
> 7) In addition, XInclude processors may have an interoperability
problem
> depending on whether or not a DTD (or Schema) has been applied.  The
> attribute parse=" xml " will have a normalized value of "xml" if a DTD
> is present, and a normalized value of " xml " if one is not.
> Presumably, the latter fails.  The Core WG should assess the impacts
of
> this problem.
> 
> Sound about right?
> 
> Thanks
> - Jonathan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeni Tennison [mailto:jeni@jenitennison.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 1:25 AM
> > To: Jonathan Marsh
> > Cc: www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org
> > Subject: Re: XML Schema for XInclude
> >
> > Hi Jonathan,
> >
> > > As far as whitespace normalization using xs:token, I don't think
> > > that's a good idea. The XInclude processor looks for the strings
> > > "text" and "xml", and any whitespace will cause it to fail. If
> > > xs:token encouraged someone to put whitespace in there, inclusion
> > > would only work when the schema was applied and performed
> > > normalization. I think it is a better description of the inputs of
> > > the XInclude processor to not allow any whitespace.
> >
> > I don't think that the fact that XInclude processors don't normalize
> > the value of the parse attribute is made explicit anywhere in the
> > spec, but OK. Bear in mind that describing parse as an enumerated
> > attribute in the DTD has the same implications regarding whitespace
as
> > basing its value on xs:token in the schema.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jeni
> >
> > ---
> > Jeni Tennison
> > http://www.jenitennison.com/

Received on Saturday, 18 May 2002 11:46:06 UTC