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Peter Newcomb writes: > - the name of the meta-DTD entity (REQUIRED for validation) XML could work around this problem by specifying that the meta-DTD entity have the same name as the notation (and as the base architecture itself). > - whether or not to automatically map element types to element forms > of the same name (default: perform automatic mapping) This is an important one -- I rarely use the default value here, because automatic mapping will often cause conflicts with small architectures embedded in complex document types. > I would very much like to be able to use the SGML architecture > mechanism with XML, but XML's lack of data attributes makes it > impossible to do so, except in the simplest of cases. (And even in > those cases we cannot prove architectural validity for lack of a > meta-DTD entity name.) No following the scheme in annex 1, but we could provide validation using the convention I mentioned above. > Either we need data attributes in XML, or a different architecture > binding mechanism needs to be devised. My personal opinion is that > the former would be easier, and more generally useful, but I have > to admit to a tendency to the more general and therefore less > easily implementable. It would not be hard to implement data-attribute support in XML, but the committee might not be thrilled with the idea -- it will probably seem too much like creeping featurism. I imagine that they will probably end up using processing instructions instead of data attributes. I agree with Peter in preferring data attributes. All the best, David -- David Megginson ak117@f... Microstar Software Ltd. dmeggins@m... University of Ottawa dmeggins@u... http://www.uottawa.ca/~dmeggins xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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