Re: Minutes for 2001-04-02?

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Lauren Wood scripsit:

 > Present: Lauren, David, Norm, Paul, Tony

John's belated views on a few points:

 > Vote: in order to be recognized as elements in an XML Catalog,
 > the elements must be in the correct namespace. (This means that the
 > null namespace is no longer considered valid for elements in the XML
 > Catalog).
 > Agree: Tony, Norm, Paul, David, Lauren

John agrees too, for the record.

 > Attribute question: unprefixed attributes are in the per-element
 > namespace.  An attribute with an explicit namespace prefix is in the
 > global attribute partition. Norm suggests that global attributes in
 > the catalog namespace aren't  recognized and are an error (effects
 > must be ignored, but an error message can  be raised).

I disagree here: prefixed attributes should be ignored and *not* an
error.  This enables catalog elements to do double duty as XLink or
RDF.

 > PI issue: the use case is adding a PI to the document to be able to
 > have a per-document override of the starting catalog.

I don't have  a view on this one yet.

 > Next meeting on Easter Monday: move to Tuesday 17th instead.

Noted.

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