Re: [xml-dev] Re: determining ID-ness in XML

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

> I wouldn't take the resounding silence from the punters on xml:base 
> to be an endorsement.  
>
> All these changes should be bundled together into some unified
> pre-announced version-up of XML, rather than tacked on willy 
> nilly.

There aren't that many conformant implementations of xml:base
around yet, particularly in tookits.  (GNUJAXP supports it now.)
Spec revisions aren't strictly necessary to get tool support, though
they do help promote uniformity.

For all that I agree that piecemeal revisions are problems, I'd
rather have them than see very many big/disruptive changes.
Those are good ways to trickle in undesirable updates too.

- Dave