TEI Stand-Off Markup WG 2003-04-11 Conference Call Notes
Initials Used for People
- SB Syd Bauman
- LB Lou Burnard
- JC Jean Carletta
- CC Chris Catton
- HC Hamish Cunningham
- DD David G. Durand
- JH Jessica Hekman
- NI Nancy M. Ide
- AI Amy Isard
- FL François Lachance
- CL Christophe Laprun
- LR Lloyd Rutledge
- FV Fabio Vitali
Commenced ~14:11Z with DD, JH, SB, FV, JC.
Canonical References
FV raises issues of using regexp either in addition to or instead of delim= and length=.
Consensus is that regexps are a good idea, used instead of delim= and length=, but we will post to list to await objections until Wed 2003-04-16. Looking at XML Schema regexps.
XInclude
FVs concern that XInclude and DTDs are incompatible addressed by pointing out that two parsing passes solves the problem. (First a non-validating pass that does XInclude processing, the output of which is handed over to a validation pass.)
XInclude requires that engines process the element() scheme of XPointer. It does not require that engines be able to process the xpointer() scheme of XPointer, i.e., that part of XPointer that describes ranges and points. We, however, could (and should?) still make use of the xpointer() scheme in XInclude, on theory that some tool that can handle 'em will be available.
Appendix A:
Wrapped up at 15:05. Next call 2003-04-18.