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I have followed the discussion on the TAG list and here, and I still
fail to see what gets people upset about this. This specification
defines a particular application of XML and the style of document that
that application uses. As long as it doesn't purport to define a
generalized XML parser, why is it wrong? This application won't accept
all well-formed XML documents, but so what? Must every application that
uses XML accept any XML document? That just doesn't make sense to me.
What's the danger here?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu]
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 7:59 AM
> To: Mike Champion; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] The subsetting has begun
>
> At 8:40 AM -0500 2/21/03, Mike Champion wrote:
>
>
> >Anyone following sml-dev three years ago would not be surprised to
> >hear that vendors are subsetting XML for mobile, data-oriented
> >applications. Where's the "sin" here? What's a cellphone supposed
> >to do with an external entity reference, or a notation declaration?
> >Should well-known interoperability antipatterns such as default
> >attribute values be encouraged in lightweight applications?
>
> The sin is in forbidding the document type declaration. If they
> choose not to load any external entities, then that's blessed by XML.
> However, this does not give them freedom to reject documents that
> contain such things, or to drop out lexical features of XML such as
> default attribute values and internal entities declared in the
> internal DTD subset.
>
> I suspect part of the problem is that the members of the expert group
> did not have a clear understanding of the difference between
> validation and reading the DTD, between the DTD and the document type
> declaration, and between the internal and external DTD subsets.
>
> These are common areas of confusion for a lot of developers. However,
> if you're going to write specs, you need to understand such matters
> better than the average developer.
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