- From: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:55:06 -0400
- To: www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org
- Cc: Jonathan Marsh <jmarsh@microsoft.com>
This got caught in moderation in Dan's inbox, sorry. Liam > From: "MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)" <EB2M-MRT@asahi-net.or.jp> > Subject: [Moderator Action] Re: Architectural problems of the XInclude CR > To: "Jonathan Marsh" <jmarsh@microsoft.com> > Cc: www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org > > > On Fri, 9 May 2003 15:48:07 -0700 > "Jonathan Marsh" <jmarsh@microsoft.com> wrote: > > > We adopted such terminology, as illustrated by the > > following sample: > > > > When parse="xml", the include location is dereferenced and the > > resource > > is fetched, transformed to application/xml, and an infoset is created. > > The transformation to application/xml allows XInclude to give the > > author of the including document priority over the server of the > > included document in terms of how to process the included content; > > namely, to include a document as either XML or as text. > > > > We would like to know if you feel this is adequate to satisfy your > > objection to the publication of XInclude as a Proposed Recommendation of > > the W3C. > > Thank you for your further consideration. I am not satisfied however. > > First, this issue (contentTypeOverride-24) is being debated at the TAG. > I have seen a draft of "Client handling of MIME headers" but it does not > mention anything about casting. > > Second, it is not clear what happens to the charset parameter. Suppose > that an XML document is served as text/plain, charset=utf-16. Then, > do you ignore the charset parameter? If the document is served as > text/plain without the charset parameter, do you use the default for > text/plain (which is 8859-1 in the case of HTTP and US-ASCII in > the case of SMTP) or the default for application/xml (which is > autodetection as specified in XML 1.0)? > > Third, what do you mean by casting? Suppose that you have an HTML document > labelled as text/html. What is the input of your "casting"? A sequence of > octet sequences? A sequence of Unicode characters? A DOM tree representing > HTML documents? Please elaborate. > > Cheers, > > > -- > MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) <EB2M-MRT@asahi-net.or.jp> > -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, liam@w3.org, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ Ankh's list of IRC clients: http://www.valinor.sorcery.net/clients/
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