- From: Mark Baker - Ottawa Consumer and Embedded Div. <Mark.A.Baker@canada.sun.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:57:05 -0500
- To: "Andrew Layman" <andrewl@microsoft.com>, "'Dennis Keeling'" <DKeeling@basda.org>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
>In fact, this is typical of much data expressed in XML, and is part of the >intention of the semantic web, namely that the same information is viewable >by casual users (via a style sheet) and processable by an application >looking for semantically-bound elements. An author cannot assume that any sort of processor will be activated in response to a namespace or xml-stylesheet declaration. See draft-murata-xml section 3, last paragraph; An XML document labeled as text/xml or application/xml might contain namespace declarations, stylesheet-linking processing instructions (PIs), schema information, or other declarations that might be used to suggest how the document is to be processed. For example, a document might have the XHTML namespace and a reference to a CSS stylesheet. Such a document might be handled by applications that would use this information to dispatch the document for appropriate processing. Note "might". I do agree though, that once these assumptions can be made, they will be of great use. In the meantime though, we've got to manage the problem. I like application/xp+xml, but we don't have to decide that for a while yet. MB
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