On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 23:20, Arjun Ray wrote:
> Joe English <> wrote:
>
> | There were and are plenty of language-specific APIs for SGML/XML
> | processing, and none of them need to interoperate with each other.
> | This isn't something that the W3C needs to standardize IMO.
>
> I agree. The formlization of an infoset spec is not only enough, it makes
> DOM irrelevant.
Aren't there places were interoperable APIs are most needed? What about
parsers? This is still a major interoperability issue for web developers
even with recent versions of browsers, maybe not for the DOM, but we
have no way to control for instance client side transformations in a
browser.
I don't want to discuss if it should be done by the W3C or not, but
there still are contexts in which interoperable and standardized APIs
are badly needed!
Eric
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