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Subject: Re: [dita] FW: XML Spec: Removal of Reservation of "xml" from Names in Errata to 5th Edition
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I come back to the thought, though, of
"What if we had had that OMG! moment when the TC first reviewed
the design for this domain?" Some of the knowledge we have today
would not have been available at the time, and I suspect we would
have requested that the prefixes be renamed in consideration of
the apparent rules of the day.
Had we done so back then, would we today even be considering the option of going back to the now-safe 'xml' prefixes? I'm sort of playing the devil's advocate here. If we lean toward the path of least resistance today (leave things as is), we'll need to at least create a FAQ reciting all the reasons why this is now safe.
Here is Liam's final response to my questions. Cheers, E. ————— Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC http://contrext.com On 8/20/14, 12:49 PM, "Liam R E Quin" <liam@w3.org> wrote:On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:42:56 -0500 Eliot Kimber <ekimber@contrext.com> wrote:As far as I can tell the DITA standard itself does not specify use of XML 1.1. So does that mean we can simply ignore XML 1.1 on this issue and take XML 1.0 as definitive? I haven't really paid attention to the implications of XML 1.1 vs. 1.0. DITA definitely does not *require* the use of XML 1.1.XML 1.0 5th edition replaces XML 1.1 for most practical purposes. Differences are the use of Unicode NEL as whitespace (not recommended for interchange outside a mainframe environment though) and the C0 control characters that are permitted if escaped in 1.1 and not allowed at all in 1.0 (but they are meaningless and are included only for compatibility).Xerces definitely does not report the use of names starting with "xml" (and never has as far as I know since I've been using these tag names since at least 2007).Most don't, I've envountered a couple of parsers that reject them.So it sounds like the errata to XML 1.0 5th Edition are sufficient to argue correctness of the current DITA 1.3 design with names starting with "xml".Yes, I think so. -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php --
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