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He would definitely want to control the distribution and contracts, squeeze down the network a bit, yes. I can't quarrel with the effort if it is useful with some subset of the web community, but in effect, that is what he is subsetting: the definition of his user base. Even then, it isn't correct to say he does no one a service, just that such a service cannot by definition have the reach of XML so it does no one a service to make the claim that it is XML. Given that XML does not have a means to express a subset of itself and some subset of the web user community might find such a thing useful, it is a weakness of XML declaratively although nothing stops him from making an instance conformant unless he actually breaks the syntax in so doing. So the best and only advice one can give for such a requirement is to return to SGML and write their own SGML Declaration, in effect, go to the parent and create a different subset of SGML. Lots of luck selling that one. :-) len From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@s...] > I'm so looking forward to the messages from users saying "how > do I get [tool x] to serialize my data in a form that the > Redefined.Horizons parser will accept?" > > Subsetting XML does no-one a service. > > That's what SGML said about XML. Kettle is black. Alright, I'll qualify my statement. Subsetting XML does no one a service unless the subset is likely to achieve widespread agreement and support. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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