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At 01:40 PM 11/10/00 -0500, Jonathan Borden wrote: > Questioning wisdom is easy to do unless you propose an alternative. The >term "armchair quarterback" comes to mind. I'm willing to listen to proposed >fixes to the true problem you are discussing (wasn't this the crux of the >"Between Raw and Cooked" thread?) But, if your proposed fix trashes my >current and planned implementations I am going to either loudly complain, >mandate XML 1.0 (i.e. not accept your solution), or both. I proposed re-examining the categories of processing XML 1.0 defines to examine whether those categories really work. I don't think they do, but I don't think an obvious solution leaps out. Reaching solutions is difficult, and starting discussions with a particular solution doesn't seem like a smart way to proceed when it's not even clear to many people that the problem exists. I've been working at this in various forms (XPDL, Common XML, several chapters in books) for years, and I'd really prefer that you leave phrases like "armchair quarterback" at home. You're quite welcome to mandate XML 1.0 for your own projects. I'm sure the W3C would be disappointed if you opted to ignore Namespaces and W3C XML Schemas, not to mention a few of their other specs, but it's certainly up to you as implementation designer. > That being said I would no more wish to require someone to use a DTD >than I would wish to require someone to use an XML Schema, and part of the >wisdom of XML 1.0 is that it requires neither. I'm not so worried that >Common XML wishes not to use DTDs as I am that future incarnations of W3C >XML attempt to deprecate DTDs over XML Schemas. That's a problem which goes well beyond anything I was discussing. I'd far prefer an XML which made it easy for document creators to use DTDs _or_ Schemas _or_ neither by _their_ choice, not the parser creator, but I don't think that's necessarily incompatible with your hopes. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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