Re: Conformance value of "+xml"?

[Tim Bray <tbray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:29 AM 26/09/00 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>At 09:59 AM 9/26/00 -0400, Mark Baker wrote:
>>My understanding from Dan was that the cat's already out of the bag; SVG
>>uses +xml.

Not quite yet, but as Chris says, probably will.

>On the other hand, I'm not sure that the problem is quite as drastic as it
>seems.  Any XML application can point into an SVG, SMIL, or XHTML document
>using XPointer.  It's just that SVG, SMIL, and XHTML applications may not
>let those documents point _out_ using XPointer.

Right.  I think that the +xml idiom is useful even if it doesn't guarantee
that such documents are going use XLink/XPointer for outgoing links.  

Hmm, it also seems that anything that's of type *+xml has, per definition,
internal structures which can be addressed by xpointer whether the 
media-type designers foresaw that or not. -Tim