Re: Starting the ietf-xml-mime mailing list

[MURATA Makoto <murata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin J. Duerst wrote:
> 
> > How can a MIME processor or vCard application extract a vCard fragment 
> > from the XML document?  To do so, somebody has to parse the document.  But 
> > if somebody has to parse it anyway, it should be really easy to find 
> > which namespace appears in the document.  Thus, there is not much point 
> > in having namespace information in the MIME header.
> 
> If we apply this argument fully, then the doctype is also not necessary.

Exactly.

I would like to know advantages and disadvantages of Larry's obvious 
solution (i.e., dispatch to the general-purpose XML parser which further 
dispatch to appropriate applictions).

Makoto
 
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