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Joe English wrote:
> Now general-purpose XML consumers cannot expect to receive sane
> documents. However *special-purpose* consumers, designed to work
> with specific markup vocabularies, can be a lot simpler if the
> markup vocabulary includes namespace sanity as a requirement.
What about declaring those documents?
<?sanity type="normal|sane|neurotic|psychotic"?>
with a default value of psychotic (unfortunately, but you can't assume
documents to be normal nor even sane) would allow consumers to adapt
their behavior or even to reject documents they don't like...
An adaptation of Evan's transformation could easily add this PI to
existing documents... a "lite XML" or "XML light").
There are lots of additions to do with new specs such as W3C XML Schema,
XPointer or XPath 2.0 and an increasing need too!
Thanks for this delicious food for thoughts!
Eric
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