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 "Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > I'd suggest that the W3C is trying to have it both ways - they won't subset > XML, but heck, they'll subset the Infoset instead! Sure looks that way. > I'd suggest that's pretty arbitrary, and that your use of '74 whitespace > properties' is basically a barricade to keep out any of the rest of the > items in Appendix C. Naah, I'm not that clever. Lazy, maybe. > You arbitrarily ruled it out of scope, the DOM folks arbitrarily ruled it > out of scope, and now we have a lot of XML features that applications just > plain can't get at easily. There were no DTD parsers for far too long, so nobody really thought about DTD models. With the Wutka model, that has changed. > And how exactly did base URIs creep back into scope, while DTD dropped? I > can't find 'base URI' anywhere in the XML 1.0 spec. Just curious on that > one. (Schemas aren't in either XML 1.0 or namespaces, so I'm much less > inclined to dispute that boundary.) In order to understand URI references within documents, you need to know the base URI in effect at the point where the URI reference appears. > What I'm saying here is that 'best we can figure it' appears to be a purely > political decision that has some significant consequences. *shrug*. It may look political to you. To me, it looks like "what DOM and SAX do, plus a little bit." > I'd suggest that it's better to drop that decision making - and drop the > Infoset entirely - than to continue the current approach. Sorry for all > the blood you've sweated, but that's what I feel quite strongly. Feel free to urge the W3C not to issue an Infoset at this time, but don't expect to get listened to. That does not mean that *I* am not listening, or even that the WG is not listening. But even if we all resigned in a body, *somebody* at the W3C would make sure *an* Infoset existed. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@r...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer) 
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