OASIS Mailing List ArchivesView the OASIS mailing list archive below
or browse/search using MarkMail.

 


Help: OASIS Mailing Lists Help | MarkMail Help

 


 

   RE: Arbitrary Infoset boundaries (was Re: Common XML - Final ReviewDraft

[ Lists Home | Date Index | Thread Index ]
  • From: Aaron Skonnard <aarons@develop.com>
  • To: Xml-Dev <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
  • Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 16:27:55 -0600

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 3:15 PM
> To: xml-dev@xml.org
> Subject: Arbitrary Infoset boundaries (was Re: Common XML - Final Review
> Draft)
>
> >One sticking point seems to be DTDs.  If we did DTDs, we'd have to do
> >Schemas too, and that seemed like too big a job (plus the Schema WG is
> >changing things all the time as well).  So we arbitrarily ruled
> >metainformation (except for base URIs) out of scope.
>
> You arbitrarily ruled it out of scope, the DOM folks arbitrarily ruled it
> out of scope, and now we have a lot of XML features that applications just
> plain can't get at easily.

Once XSD and XInclude are done, DTDs are dead weight for the Infoset. It's
really about the fundamental abstractions that we can infer from XML 1.0 +
Namespaces in light of our current direction.

-aaron





 

News | XML in Industry | Calendar | XML Registry
Marketplace | Resources | MyXML.org | Sponsors | Privacy Statement

Copyright 2001 XML.org. This site is hosted by OASIS