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At 05:57 AM 4/1/99 -0500, David Megginson wrote: >I suspect that industry practice will be always to run XML through a >normaliser before publishing, so that the attribute default values get >plugged right into the instance. I suspect strongly that industry practice for XML will diverge as sharply as it did for HTML and SGML, leading to lots of 'practices' that render XML document sets mutually unintelligible to different processors. Why? Because too many people have wildly different assumptions about 'industry practice', but as long as they all have assumptions, things get left out of specs or implemented without concern for the spec. I'd list some culprits, but it seems too rude. (Namespaces, validation, and retrieval of external resources are the main areas for such entertainment, however.) Short version: There is no uniform industry practice with regard to XML processing, and it's not likely that there ever will be. If it needs to be hammered down, write it into the spec, ferociously. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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