• To: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Subject: Re: Documents, data and markup: YAML Ain't Markup Language
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 17:27:50 -0400
• Cc: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>, xml-dev@l...
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Paul Prescod scripsit:

> Because of the name/value orientation of data applications, it is 
> usually safe to ignore an unknown element as an "extension". But in a 
> document application unknown elements tend to have semantics that you 
> really should deal with. A publisher can't say "I've never heard of a 
> colophon, therefore I'll just throw it out."

If we must have a rule, let it be:  In data-oriented applications, ignore
unknown elements.  In document-oriented applications, replace an
unknown element by its content.

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