- From: Grosso, Paul <pgrosso@ptc.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:33:06 -0500
- To: <www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org>
- Cc: "Erik Wilde" <dret@berkeley.edu>
[Forwarding to the xinclude comments list--paul]
-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Wilde
Sent: Saturday, 2007 January 27 21:07
Subject: "validation" of xi:fallback in xinclude
hello.
i am currently implementing xinclude, and i ran across the following
issue: in paragraph 2 of section 3.2, it says very clearly: "It is a
fatal error for an xi:fallback element to appear in a document
anywhere other than as the direct child of the xi:include. It is a
fatal error for the xi:fallback element to contain any elements from
the XInclude namespace other than xi:include."
to me, this is a pretty clear statement, so i implemented it like
that. when running the test cases, however, i failed one and was
wondering what was happening. the test data led to the mail archive
and then i found that later in section 3.2 there there is the new
text: "The content of xi:fallback elements are ignored unless a
resource error occurs while processing the surrounding xi:include
element. In particular, apparent fatal errors caused by the presence,
absence, or content of elements and attributes inside the xi:fallback
element must not be reported in xi:fallback elements that are ignored."
i think that the wording of this section is rather
unfortunate. statements should be combined to not contradict each
other, right now paragraph 2 contradicts paragraph 4.
kind regards,
erik wilde tel:+1-510-6432253 - fax:+1-510-6425814
dret@berkeley.edu - http://dret.net/netdret
UC Berkeley - School of Information (iSchool)
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