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Rick,
Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>Would it be more "XML"-ish to hang preprocessing off namespaces?
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If you mean by "XML"-ish, more inefficient, sure. ;-)
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>So that you provide a preprocessor with a list of allowed namespaces
>or prefixes and strip the tags of the rest? "Ignore html1: and strip rdf:"
>for example.
>
This ties the processing of the markup to the inline syntax in the
document instance, a bad thing in my opinion. The JITTs paradigm allows
you to impose structure upon the markup in the document instance, as
opposed to relying solely upon the inline syntax.(There are other
interesting things you can do reading the inline syntax and imposing
structures during processing but we will be covering those in future
notes on JITTs.)
This frees the user to make choices that may not have been imagined in
the authoring of the original document.
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>There would then be kind of overlapping WF check easily possible,
>just checking that all elements of each prefix/namespace form a
>balanced tree: one tree per namespace. (With some scoping
>conventions for xmlns declarations.)
>
WF check would be done on processing the DTD or schema that is being
imposed. Both require well-formed trees and the JITTs paradigm has not
suggested differently. The imposed structure then has to meet the
requirements of the DTD or schema, which is enforcement of both
well-formedness as well as validity.
It is a limitation of the JITTs paradigm, which will be noticed by its
critics once all other criticisms fail, that it requires use of a DTD or
schema. Not necessarily for the document instance, which may not have
one, but in processing of any document instance. Well, would not
necessarily have to be a DTD or schema but some specification of what
structure is alllowable in this document, assuming you wanted the JITTs
parser to recognize only part of the markup. A JITTs parser without a
DTD or schema or with a "regular" DTD or schema, should produce the same
result as a standard XML parser.
Patrick
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>Cheers
>Rick Jelliffe
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