Re: nist-include-40 & nist-include-39

Jonathan,
   Thanks. This helps.

- Bill

Jonathan Marsh wrote:

>http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xinclude-20041220/#include_element
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>says:
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>"The children property of the xi:include element may 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. 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."
>
>That is the normative text, and specifically allows children elements.
>The spec goes on to say:
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>"The following (non-normative) DTD fragment illustrates a sample
>declaration for the xi:include element:
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>"<!ELEMENT xi:include (xi:fallback?)>"
>
>That's "non-normative" and a "sample" only.  It wouldn't be appropriate
>to validate a content model that included (for whatever purpose) an
>extension element.
>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Bill Han [mailto:bill.han@oracle.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:46 PM
>>To: Elliotte Harold
>>Cc: Oleg Tkachenko; Paul Grosso; Jonathan Marsh; www-xml-xinclude-
>>comments@w3.org
>>Subject: Re: nist-include-40 & nist-include-39
>>
>>Please tell me exactly where the spec says that.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>- Bill
>>
>>Elliotte Harold wrote:
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>>>Bill Han wrote:
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>>>>This has nothing to do with xi:fallback. I am talking about the
>>>>content model for xi:include.
>>>>
>>>><elem/> is allowed under <xi:include>? Then, how do you interpret
>>>><!ELEMENT xi:include (xi:fallback?)> ?
>>>>
>>>>xi:fallback is okay, b/c the spec says <!ELEMENT xi:fallback ANY>.
>>>>
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>>>The content model is irrelevant. Validity is optional. Nothing in
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>>the
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>>>XInclude spec prohibits an xi:include element from containing
>>>essentially arbitrary well-formed content not in the XInclude
>>>namespace. There is no error here.
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