- From: Williams, Stuart <skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:11:15 -0000
- To: "'Gavin Thomas Nicol'" <gtn@rbii.com>, www-tag@w3.org, xml-dist-app@w3.org
> The point being that the application interpreting the document defines > it's processing/interpretation, not the namespace declarations. So... are you suggesting that at least in some cases the processing/interpretation of a document determines its type? Interesting... Get's kind of circular if a determination of the type of a document is used to resolve what processing/interpretation it should be subjected to! Regards Stuart > -----Original Message----- > From: Gavin Thomas Nicol [mailto:gtn@rbii.com] > Sent: 15 January 2002 14:31 > To: www-tag@w3.org; xml-dist-app@w3.org > Subject: Re: Media types > > > On Tuesday 15 January 2002 04:44 am, Paul Prescod wrote: > > Even if we stick with the XHTML example, there are two choices. > > Either XSLT is presumed to be "in charge" in which case the XSLT > > specifications rules are applied to the whole document and you get > > the HTML content that the author expected, to be subsequently > > handled by an HTML processor, or XHTML rules are applied and the > > unknown elements are just ignored silently. > > The point being that the application interpreting the document defines > it's processing/interpretation, not the namespace declarations. >
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