- From: Dave Peterson <davep@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:48:09 -0400
- To: w3c-xml-plenary@w3.org, xml-editor@w3.org
>The XML Core WG solicits 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". > >Currently the version number can be almost any sequence of letters, digits, >and period, but XML processors are allowed to throw a fatal error if >the value is anything but "1.0". With the proposed erratum, it will be >a fatal error to use anything but "1.0". > >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. Have I got this right? Currently a 1.0 parser *may* reject any document not saying "1.0". With this erratum in place a 1.0 *must* reject any document not saying "1.0". If I understand this right, a 1.0 parser already has "a way to reject XML 1.1 documents up front". You're only mandating that it *must* use this way. It appears that you're asserting that the intention of this proposal is "to give XML 1.0 parsers a way to" do something they already can do. What's the point? -- Dave Peterson SGMLWorks! davep@acm.org
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