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david@m... writes: > > Yeah, but NOTATIONs require the use of a validating processor, and > > lots of non-validating apps would like to use base64. Having said > > that, I think that your proposed xml:content is more or less exactly > > what NOTATION is for? -Tim > > Yes, it was intended as a lighter-weight alternative to the use of > NOTATION attributes. > The proposed xml:content attribute does serve as a lightweight alternative to NOTATIONs. If xml:content values are MIME types, this is a simple alternative to FPI's etc. In the same way that people don't wish to be forced into the use of a DTD, we have a similar need to label types without FPIs (it is apparent from a parallel thread that the whole idea of FPI namespaces is likely to engender heated debate for some time). MIME types while not perfect, have practical and widespread use. When used with xml:packed="base64" the default is xml:content="application/octet-stream". When xml:packed="none" the default is xml:content="text/plain". Is there a good way to specify this? We have had discussions about why XML isn't as widespread as it might be. The conclusion of some was that things are getting bogged down in needless complexity. If most of HTML is going to be replaced by XML (and there is no reason that this might not happen), then these issues need to be solved in a simple and lightweight fashion. Jonathan Borden JABR Technology Corporation mailto:jborden@m... 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/ 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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