- From: Clark C. Evans <cce@clarkevans.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:52:31 -0400 (EDT)
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- cc: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
#1 Put out a notice officially recognizing the
namespace inconsistencies amoung the spec
and the various implementations. Enumerating
each and every issue. Examples include
(a) uri reference absolute/relative inconsistencies
(b) per-element-partition inconsistency
(c) any others?
#2 Specify "conservative" interpretations of
each of the issues; ie, a core position which
can be counted on to work in the future. Ex:
(a) only use absolute URIs in namespaces,
processes use character-by-character comparision.
(b) Do not rely on a per-element distinction
for un-prefixed attributes.
#3 Form an emergency committee to re-write the
XML Namespace spec; rolling in the xml:base
specification. Re-issue an updated namespec
specification and patches to XPath/etc. as
needed. Don't worry about breaking previous
documents or code... just get it right.
#4 Release the above changes with XML 1.1 ... with
<?xml version="1.1" ?>
Oh fun.
Clark
Received on Friday, 19 May 2000 13:49:57 UTC