- From: Joseph M. Reagle Jr. <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:27:07 -0400
- To: "Takeshi Imamura" <IMAMU@jp.ibm.com>
- Cc: "Public XML Encryption List" <xml-encryption@w3.org>
At 20:07 10/2/2000 +0900, Takeshi Imamura wrote: >By the way, I heard there was a discussion on the validity of HTML/XML, >that is, >how applications should work when detecting unknown vocabularies, and it >reached >a consensus that unknown attributes (and resultant error messages) may be >ignored. Considering this, adding an ID attribute to an element to be >encrypted >and not changing its content model may not be so serious. This might be the case for HTML, with a content model that was often chaotic and laxly interprated. However, I don't see how this would be applied with respect to validity over XML. Such a document would still be well-formed, but not valid as defined by the specifications. (What discussion, and what consensus?) This concerns me because if we do have a requirement to not violate the validity of a document, that could constrain us quite a bit and we would have to rely upon references and XPath (and some have expressed XPath can be rather heavy with respect to parsing...) __ Joseph Reagle Jr. W3C Policy Analyst mailto:reagle@w3.org IETF/W3C XML-Signature Co-Chair http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/
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