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Re: [good] Question about NS 1.1

• To: richard@c..., xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: [good] Question about NS 1.1
• From: "Wayne Steele" <xmlmaster@h...>
• Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:03:13 -0700
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I would much rather be crystal clear, and cause some pain, than to be murky, 
and have people think they can ignore it.

I think such a change would call for a new version of XSLT also, that uses a 
different method of interpreting fully-qualified names. The new XSLT could 
work equally well on XML 1.0 or XML 1.1 documents.

XSLT 1.0 would continue to work unchanged, but would be restricted to XML 
1.1 documents.

I didn't start this fight, XSLT started it when it used prefixes in content. 
It accumulated bad Karma in so doing. I suggest a healthy cleansing of XSLT, 
before the bad Karma infects all of XML (if it hasn't already).

-Wayne Steele


>From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
>To: xml-dev@l...
>Subject: Re:  [good] Question about NS 1.1
>Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:41:55 +0100 (BST)
>
> >Painful, yes. But if XML Blueberry goes into XML 1.1 there's going to be
> >breaking changes anyway.
>
>What are you thinking of here?  The aim is for there to be no XML 1.0
>documents that don't work with XML 1.1 parsers, and very few cases of
>XML 1.0 documents that don't work when relabelled as XML 1.1.
>
>(Possible ones are: documents with unnormalized Unicode, if
>normalization checking is required; documents that rely on NEL not
>being treated as a line-end; I can't think of any others off-hand.)
>
>Or were you thinking of processors that will need to be changed?
>
>I am surprised by some of the suggestions that have been made here - I
>think the Core WG would not even have considered a change that forced
>people to re-write most XSLT stylesheets.
>
>-- Richard
>


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