Re: XML Guidelines -05

[Miloslav Nic <nicmila@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:

Just a few notes after scanning the text:

4.6 XML comments

XML comments are ignored by conformant processors.

It should be:

  XML comments can be  ignored by conformant processors.

or just to quote the standard:

"an XML processor may, but need not, make it possible for an application 
to retrieve the text of comments. "

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4.8 Namespaces

I would recommend to mention relative namespace problem, as I am afraid 
that some people can be tempted to use them:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Sep/0083.html
http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=758


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5.1 Character Sets and Encodings

- I see it as an important improvement in comparison with the version 4



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> 
> The -05 version of the IETF XML guidelines document can be retrieved from
> the mailing list web page:
> 
> http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-use/index.html
> 
> Thanks for your contributions!
> 
> -Scott-
> 

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