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   Re: ANN: SAX 2.0 extension proposals.

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  • From: Ken MacLeod <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>
  • To: xml-dev@xml.org
  • Date: 05 Mar 2000 12:21:47 -0600

David Megginson <david@megginson.com> writes:

> David Brownell writes:
> 
>  > I don't know about configuration file, but it does seem
>  > appropriate to say that every SAX parser should come with
>  > basic documentation including:
>  > 
>  > 	- SAX2 features/modes supported
>  > 	- default settings for those modes
>  > 	- SAX2 properties supported
>  > 
>  > Of course I think conformance statements for XML would
>  > be appropriate too.
> 
> I agree with all of this, but I'm not sure how to enforce it.  Would
> community pressure be enough?

This sounds like a small twist on Sean McGrath's XML Features Manifest
(XFM) idea.

If we come up with a list of characterists, it'd be easy to codify
that in an XML.  Then it doesn't matter if that fragment of XML comes
_with_ the package (parser) or supplied by users to a web page
dedicated to them (e.g. no enforcement is necessary).

  -- Ken

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