RE: Proposal for dealing with root, top-level multi-refs and encodingStyle from Henrik Frystyk Nielsen on 2002-05-06 (xml-dist-app@w3.org from May 2002)

From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 15:23:37 -0700
To: "Jacek Kopecky" <jacek@systinet.com>, "Martin Gudgin" <martin.gudgin@btconnect.com>
Cc: <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Message-ID: <79107D208BA38C45A4E45F62673A434D05A5454B@red-msg-07.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

I understood Gudge's proposal to say that we don't need the root
attribute so the differences seem to be small. In general, however, I
can't see how we can avoid cross-referencing without changing the
definition of "id" to only have a scope of a single serialization tree
(not that I think that is a good idea).

Henrik

> 1) We will not add the notion of a root anywhere.
> 2) We will state in the serialization rules that "unless a node
>has been serialized before and could therefore be linked to, it
>MUST be serialized in its edge EII".
>
> This will force inline serialization and suppress the need for 
>root attribute.

Received on Monday, 6 May 2002 18:24:09 UTC