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> Then; perhaps the W3C could approve something like...
>
> <?xml version = "1.1"
> base = "common"
> plus = "default-attribute-values"
> plus = "processing-instruction"
> ?>
Nice, but practically I don't see W3C doing ANYTHING to make it easier to
use or extend the life of DTD's, so it would have to be in a separate
processing instruction.
Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Clark C. Evans <cce@c...>
To: Peter Murray-Rust <peter@u...>
Cc: <xml-dev@x...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 11:50 PM
Subject: Feature Manifest (Was:RE: Parser Behaviour (serious))
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
> > <?xdev externalEntityExpansion="mandatory" DTDResolution="optional"?>
>
> This is nice.
>
> This might be going too far... but why not have a complete
> set of features; describing every assumption all the way down
> to what us SML-DEV people are calling MinXML.
>
> Feature list:
>
> * mixed-content
> * attributes
> * pi
> * parsed-entities
> * ...
>
> And then, a list of packages...
>
> MinXML := { } // that's right, the empty set
> CommonXML := { attributes, mixed-content, ... }
> UniversalXML := CommonXML union { parsed-entities , ... }
>
> ...
>
> Then; perhaps the W3C could approve something like...
>
> <?xml version = "1.1"
> base = "common"
> plus = "default-attribute-values"
> plus = "processing-instruction"
> ?>
>
>
> This would say; this text uses all of the features
> defined by "CommonXML" feature list, plus two
> additional features. If a text uses a feature
> which is not there... it is now *explicit*
>
> Clark
>
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>
>
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>
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