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> -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Jelliffe [mailto:ricko@a...] > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 2:39 AM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: Re: determining ID-ness in XML > > > All these changes should be bundled together into some unified > pre-announced version-up of XML, rather than tacked on willy > nilly. Right, but has anyone seen any glimmer of interest in a version-up of XML from the W3C? I'll guess that an XML 2.0 would be a very challenging thing to get through the W3C process these days, and would be astonished if something became a Recommendation before 2004 or so. Can the world wait that long for id-ness declarations? Can anyone see the W3C astonishing me and doing an XML 1.1 that simply folds namespaces, xml:base, and maybe xml:idattr and some other small tweaks into a pre-announced version of XML anytime soon? Remember how SAX came about in 1997; people on this mailing list agreed that a simple parse-time API was needed, whipped one up, and the world decided to use it rather than re-invent that wheel. In a rational world, it would have been bundled together with the DOM, but we don't live in a rational world. But we do have to get by in this one, and if we agree that the lack of id-ness in well-formed XML is indeed a serious architectural problem, a willy-nilly convention beats everybody re-inventing that wheel in hundreds of applications. [my personal opinion; don't blame my employer if this is blatant stupidity]
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