- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 22:59:45 -0500
- To: "Jonathan Marsh" <jmarsh@microsoft.com>
- Cc: <www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org>
At 12:48 PM -0800 1/8/03, Jonathan Marsh wrote: >Thank you for bringing this problem to our attention. We resolved the >issue as follows: > >An xi:include element can contain any content EXCEPT elements in the >XInclude namespace other than a single optional xi:fallback element. > >A related problem was also addressed: attributes on xi:fallback >elements are now explicitly treated consistently with attributes on >xi:include - additional attributes are allowed, but unprefixed ones are >reserved for future versions of XInclude. > >If you do not agree with this resolution, please let us know. If we >don't hear from you by Jan 20th, we'll assume that you are satisfied >with this resolution. > This very well may resolve my concerns. It's hard to tell without seeing the final spec. If "An xi:include element can contain any content EXCEPT elements in the XInclude namespace other than a single optional xi:fallback element." means that the XInclude processor throws a fatal error when such an element is encountered, then this is fine. However, the type of error it throws does need to be specified. One side-effect: this approach does seem to require that processors read the children of XInclude elements to make sure there aren't any nested xi:include elements, even if the resource is available. Also, this makes me wonder about elements in the XInclude namespace other than include and fallback that do not appear inside an xi:include element. For example, xi:some-user-element. My reading of the current spec is that these are simply passed along like any other element, but perhaps you wish to tighten that up and make these fatal errors too (or perhaps not). I know these are edge cases but that's what make spec writing tough. :-) -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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