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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: Peter Murray-Rust <peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>, <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 07:02:50 -0700
At 09:46 AM 8/5/98, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>I have briefly re-read the spec and it's not immediately clear to me where
>it says that a NVP is allowed to neglect a and b if it's feeling lazy. (It
>does say that if these are in an external subset they can be neglected, I
>think.)
Section 4.4.3. C'mon Peter, this was one of the things we spent immense
time hashing out well over a year ago. Now it turns out that de facto,
typical real-world NVPs will actually on demand read external entities...
but it was a basic design assumption, driven mostly by the war-stories
of the browser guys, that it was not reasonable to expect a lightweight
web-client type of app to resolve external entities in real time.
The expectation is that the *right* way to do this kind of thing is
with XLink, which should have been done months ago if it hadn't been
for this #%!%$@ namespace swamp. -Tim
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