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On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 15:08, Rick Jelliffe wrote: > I suspect that almost all that is needed to represent the PSVI modestly is > something like > > <a b="c">zzzz</a> > > becomes > > <a psvi:type="something" psvi:validation-attempted="full" psvi-valid="true" > > <psvi:attribute name="b" psvi:type="someothertype" >c</psvi:attribute > >zzzz</a> > > In other words, the problem for a PSVI-in-XML is that attributes are > atomic. Rather than doing fancy naming tricks, it would be easier > to allow structured attributes, as part of XML 2.0, with the semantic > that in the XML infoset, those elements are attributes, just as a > namespace attribute in a document is not an attribute in the namespace > and an encoding PI is not a PI in the infoset and an xslt:attribute element > generates an attribute in its output. Wow. Now that's a remarkably complicating (though admittedly brilliant) proposal. Uh.... I think I'd prefer a binary format to that. MOE can cope with such things easily, but I'm not sure XML itself can. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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