RE: Assymettry bewteen xi:include and xi:fallback

We agree, and will make it a fatal error for the xi:fallback element to
contain any element from the XInclude namespace other than xi:include.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-xml-xinclude-comments-request@w3.org
[mailto:www-xml-xinclude-
> comments-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Elliotte Harold
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:46 PM
> To: www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org
> Subject: Assymettry bewteen xi:include and xi:fallback
> 
> 
> Section 3.1 of the CR states:
> 
> The /children/ property of the |xi:include| element may
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xinclude-20031110/#dt-must> include a
> single |xi:fallback| element; the appearance of more than one
> |xi:fallback| element, an |xi:include| element, or any other element
> from the XInclude namespace is a fatal error
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xinclude-20031110/#dt-error>. Other
> content (text, processing instructions, comments, elements not in the
> XInclude namespace, descendants of child elements) is not constrained
by
> this specification and is ignored by the XInclude processor, that is,
it
> has no effect on include processing, and does not appear in the
> /children/ properties of the result infoset. Such content might be
used
> by applications analyzing a pre-inclusion infoset, or be made
available
> to an application post-inclusion through means other than the normal
> infoset properties.
> 
> 
> This is fine. it addresses one of my comments on the previous draft,
and
> brings the spec in line with the test suite.
> 
> However, there is no equivalent statement in section 3.2 on
> xi:fallbacks. because, "It is a fatal error
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xinclude-20031110/#dt-error> for an
> |xi:fallback| element to appear in a document anywhere other than as
the
> direct child of the |xi:include" we can infer that it is illegal for a
> fallback to contain a fallback child. However, it sems to be legal for
a
> fallback ton contain an xi:something element in the XInclude namespace
> where something is anything other than fallback. It's not clear why
this
> shold be true for fallback but not include. |
> 
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold
>

Received on Tuesday, 17 February 2004 18:23:20 UTC