- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 12:24:46 -0400
- To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Cc: xml-uri@w3.org
>Because there is no mechanism at present for alerting processors to >different versions of the namespaces spec, I'd suggest that the W3C start >with deprecation, and only move on to full 'forbidden' status with another >revision of XML. The strongest advantage of _immediately_ forbidding relative syntax -- and then letting folks who need to support it for a while issue warnings and whatever do on-the-fly conversions they deem necessary -- is that it gets us out of having to decide what to do with literal syntax during the deprecation period. If we deprecate, then is the policy before the cut-off date Literal or Absolutize? Personally, I'd rather declare a "flag day" _ONCE_, as early as possible, before more folks attempt to use the deprecated syntax. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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