Hi Folks
Yes, there is a question of scope.
Regarding scope of an XDM Serialization
recommendation, would not an XDM Serialization recommendation subsume the XSLT
and XQuery serialization specification - or should they not be the same
specification since XQuery,XPath and XSLT are tied to XDM?
Jim
From: Michael Kay
[mailto:mike@saxonica.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009
2:10 AM
To: 'David A. Lee'; 'Jim Tivy'
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org; 'XProc
Dev'
Subject: RE: [xml-dev]
Serialization of XDM - Use cases / Proposal
This spec describes
concatenation of node sequences such that they are parseable as entities.
In the case you describe I think that fits well.
Atleast in my reading
5 XML
Output Method
This
describes serializing a sequence of nodes. I think this spec would fit
for your use case.
Atleast that is my read, I admit I have a hard time following the reading of
this spec (not to blame the authors, I just have a hard time understanding it
all)
I agree. The existing W3C
serialization is intended for this use case and is regularly used in this
way. (Though perhaps the HTML output method is more suitable than the XML
output method.) This requirement is out of scope for this project, which needs
to retain information present in the XDM that the existing serialization
methods throw away.
