- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:07:33 -0400 (EDT)
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Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit: From cowan Mon Jul 22 11:48:19 2002 Return-path: <xml-dev-return-11294-cowan=mercury.ccil.org@lists.xml.org> Envelope-to: cowan@mercury.ccil.org Received: from mercury.ccil.org [192.190.237.100] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for cowan@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:48:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [209.202.168.102] (helo=mail.oasis-open.org) by mercury.ccil.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17WfQx-0000N1-00 for <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:49:15 -0400 Received: (qmail 18076 invoked by uid 60909); 22 Jul 2002 15:57:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xml-dev-help@lists.xml.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Post: <mailto:xml-dev@lists.xml.org> List-Help: <mailto:xml-dev-help@lists.xml.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org> Delivered-To: mailing list xml-dev@lists.xml.org Received: (qmail 18068 invoked by uid 0); 22 Jul 2002 15:57:53 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: elharo@mail.ibiblio.org Message-Id: <p04330105b961d7e8b1fc@[192.168.254.4]> In-Reply-To: <200207191823.OAA21078@mail2.reutershealth.com> References: <200207191823.OAA21078@mail2.reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:43:58 -0400 To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org, xml-editor@w3.org From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: Re: [xml-dev] The version number in XML documents X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO version=2.11 At 2:10 PM -0400 7/19/02, John Cowan wrote: >The XML Core WG solicits public feedback on making an erratum-level >change to XML 1.0, requiring that if a version number appears in the >XML declaration, that it must be "1.0". > This is an abuse of the errata process. It's not quite as bad as declaring that the xmlns prefix is suddenly mapped to a namespace, but it comes close. The XML 1.0 specification is not ambiguous on this point. Changing it to say something other than what it now says requires a new version of the spec, not an erratum. >The intention of this proposal is to give XML 1.0 parsers a way to >reject XML 1.1 documents up front by reason of version incompatibility. > This is unnecessary. The very first version of XML 1.0 clearly stated that "Processors may signal an error if they receive documents labeled with versions they do not support." There is no need to change the spec now. If a processor finds it useful to reject an XML 1.1 document because of the version number, then it is already allowed to do so. No errratum is required to permit this. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> -- Knowledge studies others / Wisdom is self-known; John Cowan Muscle masters brothers / Self-mastery is bone; jcowan@reutershealth.com Content need never borrow / Ambition wanders blind; www.ccil.org/~cowan Vitality cleaves to the marrow / Leaving death behind. --Tao 33 (Bynner)
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