- From: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:10:36 -0500
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@allette.com.au>, xml-editor@w3.org, W3c I18n Group <w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org>, w3c-xml-plenary@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 / Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> was heard to say: | On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 10:48:24 AM, Rick wrote: | | RJ> Request for Erratum to XML 1.0 and 1.1 Specs | RJ> ---------------------------------------------- | RJ> Rick Jelliffe, ricko@topologi.com, 2003-10-21 | | RJ> I request the XML Working Group please consider the following erratum | RJ> to XML 1.0 which should also apply to XML 1.1. | | I understand what your intent is ans why you suggest this at this | time, but: Indeed. | RJ> "A non-validating processor may, at user option, imply definitions for | RJ> all the character entities defined by HTML 4[1]. A document or entity | RJ> for which definitions are implied is not well-formed. The processor must | RJ> report a non-fatal error. NOTE: The document is 'not well-formed but | RJ> processed'. Reliance on this feature by specifications is deprecated; | RJ> this option may be withdrawn at some | RJ> future time should it prove dangerous." | | Or simply not added in the first place. | | In my view, adding another XML conformance level below well formed is | not an erratum. Its a major change to the language. | | Encouraging XHTML (and MathML) processors to deal with non well formed | documents strikes me as highly dangerous and damaging; it could kill | off the already precarious position of client-side XML and relegate | XML to back-end processing only while perpetuating the 'non wellformed | but looks a bit like XML' mess. Pages purporting to be XHTML are | already the second highest type of non wellformed document. Lets not | encourage this practice. What Chris said. In spades. Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM | A man's dying is more the survivors' affair XML Standards Architect | than his own.--Thomas Mann Web Tech. and Standards | Sun Microsystems, Inc. | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE/oAKcOyltUcwYWjsRAogLAJ4upOqsETe7vSH/jmEi0BHZQkNlQACfXxHq 1E0HmCR/AWY2yfPZssOad8Q= =Kdzf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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