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Re: [xml-dev] XML 2.0

Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> Notorious XML radical Norm Walsh has also been contemplating XML's future:
> 
> http://norman.walsh.name/2008/02/20/xml20


> My favorite, of course, is:
> 
> "The XML 2.0 specification shall be no longer than the XML 1.0 
> specification."

No Simon, that's just common sense,
- keep the committees in check!

Number 7 does it for me!

7.  XML 2.0 shall do away with the requirement that documents can have 
only a single root element.

In other words, make document = extParsedEnt. Perhaps this is only a 
plausible requirement, but the fact is that many tools, like XSLT, are 
already comfortable with such instances and I'm going to take advantage 
of it in the next item.

Now that could make for fun and a shared win for docheads and dataheads!



regards

-- 
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk


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