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Re: Nested Documents

• From: COUTHURES Alain <alain.couthures@a...>
• To: noah_mendelsohn@u...
• Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:32:17 +0100

noah_mendelsohn@u... a écrit :
> So, a question:  what would be the cost/benefit of allowing XML 
> declaration(s) nested to arbitrary depth within an XML document?  I think 
> the semantics should probably be that nested documents have semantics 
> relatively independent of the container, which suggests that namespace 
> prefix bindings not be inherited, that there be a separate scope for 
> ID/IDREF resolution and conflict detection, etc.  Of course, there are 
> significant complexity tradeoffs,
Instead of pipelines, I prefer use nested XSL-T documents to interpret 
documents with nested  XHTML documents, nested SVG graphics 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/txs)... Nested documents is a pertinent 
idea from my point of view !
>   Even if the specfication for the XML 
> part of this could be written in a clean and compact way, there would 
> obviously be knock-on effects on APIs, XPath, XML Query, XML Schema, etc. 
> So, this would be a not at all trivial or entirely compatible change to 
> the stack.
>
>   
Which doesn't mean months but years to wait... It's time to start !
> I'm not at all convinced that the community is ready for a new XML at all, 
> and if it is, I'm not ready to claim that that the benefits of doing this 
> now outweigh the attendant cost and confusion.  Still, if we're 
> daydreaming about newer and cleaner XMLs, I think this should at least be 
> part of the debate.
>
>   
The trouble is when we need to develop our own workarounds and add-ons 
(I'm guilty too...and I am proud of it !) : let's be pragmatic on how we 
use XML 1.0 today and let's see what should be studied to become a new 
recommendation. Is there someone to log the ideas expressed by the 
community ?
> Noah
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Alain COUTHURES
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  • Nested Documents (was: XML 2.0)
    • From: noah_mendelsohn@u...