[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Re: Where does the "nothing left but toolkits" mythcome fr
Rich Salz wrote: > I am not concerned about the vast majority of proposals. I am > interested in what the W3C might do, and I do not expect any possible > binary format to give up the "round trip" capability. You place considerably more faith in the W3C process than I do. I hope you're right about this, but I fear you're not. I can think of several examples where the W3C has broken previous specs in unnecessary ways: 1. Redefining the namespace of xmlns attributes 2. XML 1.1 3. SOAP, specifically the restrictions on the document type declaration and processing instructions (arguably that one shouldn't be laid at their doorstep, but they did consent to the damage). Given this history, I'm not hopeful that what comes out of the binary working group will be fully round-tripabble. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
|
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|