Re: [xri] Removing priority attribute from XRD altogether

[Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten <joseph.holsten@cordance.net>]

+1 because /xrd:XRD/xrd:Link[xrd:Rel="stylesheet"] is pretty spiffy.

On Aug 29, 2009, at 8:24 PM, John Bradley wrote:

> We lose a round robin load balancing that no one ever used.
>
> Some things that don't preserve order may break.
>
> The addition of dsig requires order to be preserved anyway.
>
> I vote for dropping the priority attribute to simplify things.
>
> John B.
> On 29-Aug-09, at 9:15 PM, Gabe Wachob wrote:
>
>> Wow.
>>
>> This feels like deja vu, only the consensus on this list is 180
>> degrees different.
>>
>> I'm all for relying on ordering, always have been. Any There was
>> significant opposition
>>
>> +1e6 to dropping the priority attribute.
>>
>>  -Gabe (yes, I'm still a TC member for the time being)
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:25 AM, <njones@ouno.com> wrote:
>>> +1 On dropping the priority attribute.
>>>
>>> On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:07:26 -0700, Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com 
>>> >
>>> wrote:
>>>> If the XML experts on the list feel comfortable with the ability to
>>>> preserve document ordering, I am very much in favor of dropping the
>>>> priority attribute.
>>>>
>>>> EHL
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Scott Cantor [mailto:cantor.2@osu.edu]
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:30 PM
>>>>> To: 'Peter Davis'
>>>>> Cc: 'XRI TC'; 'DeWitt Clinton'
>>>>> Subject: RE: [xri] Removing priority attribute from XRD altogether
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter Davis wrote on 2009-08-27:
>>>>>> My concern with this is that i fear that XRD instances which are
>>>>>> dynamically generated within an application are able to produce
>>>>>> service elements in the order they intend when serializing their
>>>>>> object into XML.  I do not have sufficient exposure to enough XML
>>>>>> libraries to know if this is truly an issue, however.
>>>>>
>>>>> I mentioned on the call that the people who would have problems  
>>>>> with
>>>>> order
>>>>> are those using dumb or broken data binding tools. There are  
>>>>> specs that
>>>>> have
>>>>> made and continue to make such allowances, but I think this is a  
>>>>> lot of
>>>>> effort for the rest of us to help people using broken tools.
>>>>>
>>>>> (A similar argument exists regarding making allowances for  
>>>>> people that
>>>>> insist on using non-XML tools to process XML.)
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Scott
>>>>>
>>>>>
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