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Re: XML 2.0

• From: "bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@g...>
• To: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:41:20 +0100

I think, from reading these various threads over the last few days is
what I would like to see is, for every functionality added, prune
something.

Why, well mainly because it seems this would signify a commitment on
the part of the W3C to not make XML too complex (ok it was sort of
hard to write that with a straight face but you know what I mean...)

So for adding in present day unicode etc. support, remove DTDs for
validation (I still like the idea of subsetting DTD for just Entity
declarations)

Basically I would like to see a process that kept feature adding as
difficult as possible.


Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Peter Hunsberger
<peter.hunsberger@g...> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Rick Jelliffe
>  <rjelliffe@a...> wrote:
>  > What is the difference between a document with multiple roots and a
>  >  document with a single root?  One start tag and one end tag.
>
>  In addition to Michaels logging use case another standard use case is
>  dynamic aggregation of multiple resources for presentation where those
>  multiple resources have different cache lifetimes.
>
>  For example, consider a Web based editor; an initial request will
>  require all resources.  As editing proceeds individual resources will
>  get invalidated and must be cycled through the back end. If you want
>  to treat them consistently on the front you have to add the extra
>  wrapping step even though it now adds no value what-so-ever. The
>  alternative ends up being that AJAX style asynchronous requests for
>  each resource and handling them individually. Once you've done that
>  you might as well use JSON, then you don't have to worry about
>  artificially packing up individual resources in the first place.
>
>  One start tag and one end tag ends up hiding the fact that you have
>  multiple resources in a single "package" (may not be a file) and
>  requiring artificial work arounds that add no extra value but do cost
>  processing resources....
>
>  --
>  Peter Hunsberger
>
>
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• References:
  • Re: XML 2.0
    • From: COUTHURES Alain <alain.couthures@a...>
  • RE: XML 2.0
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
  • RE: XML 2.0
    • From: "Rick Jelliffe" <rjelliffe@a...>
  • Re: XML 2.0
    • From: "Peter Hunsberger" <peter.hunsberger@g...>