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   Re: Feature Manifest (Was:RE: Parser Behaviour (serious))

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  • From: "Frank Boumphrey" <bckman@ix.netcom.com>
  • To: "Clark C. Evans" <cce@clarkevans.com>, "Peter Murray-Rust" <peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 10:57:12 -0400

> Then; perhaps the W3C could approve something like...
>
>   <?xml version = "1.1"
>         base    = "common"
>         plus    = "default-attribute-values"
>         plus    = "processing-instruction"
>   ?>

Nice, but  practically I don't see W3C doing ANYTHING to make it easier to
use or extend the life of DTD's, so it would have to be in a separate
processing instruction.

Frank

----- Original Message -----
From: Clark C. Evans <cce@clarkevans.com>
To: Peter Murray-Rust <peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>
Cc: <xml-dev@xml.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 11:50 PM
Subject: Feature Manifest (Was:RE: Parser Behaviour (serious))


> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
> > <?xdev externalEntityExpansion="mandatory" DTDResolution="optional"?>
>
> This is nice.
>
> This might be going too far... but why not have a complete
> set of features; describing every assumption all the way down
> to what us SML-DEV people are calling MinXML.
>
> Feature list:
>
>   * mixed-content
>   * attributes
>   * pi
>   * parsed-entities
>   * ...
>
> And then, a list of packages...
>
>   MinXML       := { }   // that's right, the empty set
>   CommonXML    := { attributes, mixed-content, ... }
>   UniversalXML := CommonXML union { parsed-entities ,  ... }
>
> ...
>
> Then; perhaps the W3C could approve something like...
>
>   <?xml version = "1.1"
>         base    = "common"
>         plus    = "default-attribute-values"
>         plus    = "processing-instruction"
>   ?>
>
>
> This would say; this text uses all of the features
> defined by "CommonXML" feature list, plus two
> additional features.   If a text uses a feature
> which is not there... it is now *explicit*
>
> Clark
>
>
>
>
>
>
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