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Re: [xml-dev] annotations outside validation
Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 08:21, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
>
>>>All this discussion of IDs is making me wonder if maybe it isn't time to
>>>consider creating a class of attributes which aren't considered for
>>>validation of any kind, DTD or schema.
>>>
>><!-- why not using comments -->
>><?or even="processing instructions"?>
>>
>>???
>>
>>These are one of the few constructions which escape to validation (even
>>though there is no reason why one wouldn't invent a schema language
>>which could validate them as well)!
>>
>
> Sure! Those are good examples of the kind of flexibility I'd like to
> see. The only problem is that there are no clear rules for how those
> items relate to particular elements or attributes.
>
> Does a comment apply to the following element, the one containing it,
> the document as a whole, or none of the above? The same issues apply to
> processing instructions used that way.
It may be missing in XML 1.0, but XPath and XML Infoset seem both clear
(and consistant) on this point...
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#data-model
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/#infoitem.element
I think that it's their "out of band" and fuzzy style which
is both their major quality and their major strenght!
Eric
>
> They're definitely quite easy to "sprinkle", however.
>
>
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