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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Layers, again (was Re: fixing (just) namespaces and validation)
 At 04:55 PM 9/8/99 -0400, David Megginson wrote: >Does DDML handle Namespaces? If so, then there's your spec. There's >no law that says you have to wait for the W3C to bless something, and >DDML has the (good) characteristic of not breaking existing XML tools, >a characteristic missing from any modification of DTD syntax. Sure. But does DDML have any implementations? No. Perhaps that's my own fault, but it seems a lot easier to add a PI to DTDs, which doesn't break anything, than to write a DDML implementation from scratch. >There was no warning, however, that DTD syntax might change. I think you're overestimating the syntax changes being described. A PI would be ignored by parsers that didn't understand it, and james anderson's suggestion of interpreting attribute declarations makes even less impact. (I don't think that one will necessarily work, however.) >See above. We talked about pre-release pragmatism during the XHTML >discussion -- keep everything small, simple, and modular -- but we >also have to consider post-release pragmatism -- don't screw around >with released specs until you have a very good, >world-is-about-to-blow-up reason. This is more of a >my-car-radio-is-stuck-on-AM reason. Have you listened to AM radio in Central New York? Never mind that question. I don't think what I'm proposing is inconsistent with the values you are espousing. If I felt it was going to take a drastic reconfiguration of DTD syntax, with implications for all those corporations in search of stability, I wouldn't be bothering. Instead, it seems like I'm applying the small, simple, and modular approach to a problem that has irritated a lot of folks for a long time. It's taking something useful from one situation and applying it to another - reuse in a different context, with a little added information. And, as always, nothing I post has any official standing anyway, right? Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer (2nd Ed - September) Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) 
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