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On 12 July 2012 09:03, Michael Kay <mike@s...> wrote: > > On 12/07/2012 07:33, Pete Cordell wrote: >> >> Any insights on why xml:space is considered useful, but something like >> xml:href is not? > > > Have you ever worked on standards committees? Yes, at the IETF and ITU. > xml:space is the sort of thing that standards committees invent when they > have spent several days debating a really boring topic like whitespace, when > it's late in the evening, when there is little sign that they will reach > agreement on whether whitespace is significant or not. So they decide to > break the deadlock by saying "let's allow the user to decide", and they > invent a switch. MUST to SHOULD came up more than once I seem to recall! > The fact that the decision is inconsistent with a decision they made the > previous week on hyperlinking typically doesn't come into it; no-one notices > the inconsistency until later, and by then no-one wants to re-open the > topic. The fact that there is no logic to it seems completely logical in this case. Pete Cordell Codalogic Ltd Interface XML to C++ the easy way using XML C++ data binding to convert XSD schemas to C++ classes. Visit http://codalogic.com/lmx/ or http://www.xml2cpp.com for more info
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