• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Eric van der Vlist'" <vdv@d...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:09:58 -0000

> That means that you should probably cleanup the most basic 
> pieces (XML 1.0 + namespaces in XML + XML Base + xml:id) and 
> provide a kind of "specifications profiles" explaining how 
> the upper pieces can safely and sanely be selected and used together.
> 
> This also means that you'd have to debate over highly 
> controversial stuff such as namespaces and schema languages.

Which highlights that there are two possible objectives for a clean-up. One
is simply to throw out the things that are redundant and obsolescent (like
entities and DTDs [dodges rotten tomatoes]). The other is to redesign or
replace the things that everyone agrees were done badly (like namespaces and
XML Schema [what, no tomatoes this time?]).

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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