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>Adding three lines of code introduces the opportunity for three times >the bugs in a real application? I don't buy it. Looking for "HTML 4.0 >strict" OR "HTML 4.0 frameset" is no harder than looking for "UL" OR >"OL", if the software is set up right. > >And it is *just as necessary in the general case*. There will be tons of >code that needs to work the same across "similar" element types across >namespaces. > I said this elsewhere, so this is a little redundant but... I think its more complex than that. Its more than adding 3 lines of code. What if you want to validate the XHTML? That requires that the validation mechanism in all parsers now does partial URL matching? On which URLs does it do this? How will parsers, which use decl pools in which uniquely identified elements are given unique ids, deal with this? Otherwise, you push off validation, attribute uniqueness checks, attribute normalization, etc... off out of the parser which is what the parser was kind of designed for in the first place, right? If you think that those apps that need this functionality are happy to do it all themselves, then I have no problem with that. But I think that it deserves consideration that such documents could not meaningfully be dealt with by parsers that exist now, other than as non-validated, non-namespace aware documents pretty much. Is that really useful? And would we want to add all that complexity to parsers in order to deal with this issue, if its not sufficient to have the apps that need it handle all the issues? ---------------------------------------- Dean Roddey Software Weenie IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley roddey@u... 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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