Re: [xml-dev] xlink 1.1

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

David Carver wrote:
> That is up to the implementors, and I suspect they could use the IRI 
> support.

It's still not clear to me that the IRI support does anything but 
explicitly require something that was possible before.

> The point being is that standards no matter how small and how much of 
> niche serve their purpose, and they do need to be updated from time to 
> time.  Maybe it isn't fitting your use case or your particular interest, 
> but I'm for one am glad to see the specs getting attention.  If nothing 
> else it brings them up to date with the needs now by some in the 
> community that need them.

I guess that means we'll eventually be seeing updates of a wide variety 
of specs that see relatively little use.  That's not all bad.  In the 
case of XLink, though, it really highlighted for me that even a spec 
that utterly failed to build a community is still sort of somehow 
marching along.

Perhaps XPointer 1.1 is next.

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Simon St.Laurent
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