Hi Nathan, <YourComment> It seems like something is backwards here! If an application is processing a series of documents, once it has a universal type name...
Didier PH Martin
martind@...
Mar 1, 1999 5:08 pm
8209
IE 5.0 is no longer available on the Microsoft web site. It will be available on March 18, but I can't wait that long. I downloaded a copy of ie5setup.exe from...
Robert C. Lyons
boblyons@...
Mar 1, 1999 5:53 pm
8210
I have 24MB of IE5.0 files here as seperated CAB files,,, I could mail them to you if you want??(tomorrow) steven Steven Livingstone BSc MSc GradInstP ...
Livingstone, Stephen
Livinsb@...
Mar 1, 1999 5:58 pm
8211
... There is a discrepancy between the prose, which says "legal Unicode/10646 characters" and references old versions of these standards, and the BNF, which...
John Cowan
cowan@...
Mar 1, 1999 6:41 pm
8212
... Sure I'm serious. The XHTML document (clause 3.1) gives three standard FPIs for XHTML Strict, XHTML Transitional, and XHTML Frameset, and *requires* that...
John Cowan
cowan@...
Mar 1, 1999 7:01 pm
8213
... John's right. And it's not the Sinhala that first brought it home, but the Euro character, which is clearly OK per production [2] but isn't a "legal yadda...
Tim Bray
tbray@...
Mar 1, 1999 7:02 pm
8214
... The BOM isn't just a BOM, it's also the ZWNBSP (zero-width non-breaking space; no, I do not know how to pronounce that acronym) character, and is...
John Cowan
cowan@...
Mar 1, 1999 7:40 pm
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... I think there is reason for worry. In a UTF-16 document, you can have a BOM and then the <?xml version=?>, and that PI will still be recognized as the XML...
Tim Bray
tbray@...
Mar 1, 1999 7:41 pm
8216
... Can you quote chapter and verse for this, either Unicode or 10646? The latter spec tells you that the sequence EF BB BF may be used as a *signature* at the...
John Cowan
cowan@...
Mar 1, 1999 8:05 pm
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Greetings, ... <SNIP Content="off-topic"/> ... This is simply incorrect. The limited capabilities of thin clients and the expense of transmission of the...
Daniel Austin
daniela@...
Mar 1, 1999 8:26 pm
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There is a new site devoted to sites and documents created in XML. You can now begin submitting your sites. The new site is at: worldwideweave.com ... Jerry...
Jerry Russell
russell@...
Mar 1, 1999 8:30 pm
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... That is *exactly* the question that's now being pursued, and is I gather is in play right now in the IETF (or was that Unicode, I forget which). -Tim ...
Tim Bray
tbray@...
Mar 1, 1999 8:31 pm
8220
before you scream, this isn't about style sheets, and it isn't about attributes vs. elements. rather, this is more how to structure your document/data. any...
Mark D. Anderson
mda@...
Mar 1, 1999 9:10 pm
8221
... Would you consider <thing> and <another> to be siblings? If so, I wouldn't compartmentalise. Alternatively, if <thing> can appear after <another> but these...
Marcus Carr
mrc@...
Mar 1, 1999 9:41 pm
8222
... I'll assume you intended to work with parameter entities; then as Richard pointed out this can be legal ... if the three syntax errors are corrected ...
David Brownell
db@...
Mar 1, 1999 10:34 pm
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... That is an awfully big _if_ to enshrine in a standard (if that's where all this broo-ha-ha ultimately ends up). What if client and server are on the same...
Marcelo Cantos
marcelo@...
Mar 1, 1999 10:47 pm
8224
At XTech '99, I am delivering a presentation on information filtering applied to XML -- given a source of new/changed XML-encoded data, determining which of a...
Mark Murphy
MarkM@...
Mar 1, 1999 11:07 pm
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... I was not suggesting that. I merely said that in the general case, knowing how to parallelize requires looking at the data in the stream. I propose that...
Tom Harding
tomh@...
Mar 1, 1999 11:39 pm
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... Our database server (SIM) has a facility for querying a database at regular intervals. The results are masked with a last-modified filter, which is...
Marcelo Cantos
marcelo@...
Mar 1, 1999 11:49 pm
8227
... If you have ANY reason to think you may need the collection layer, put it in. Reasons you might want it include things like: a) Reuse - <thing>s are...
Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre
dalapeyre@...
Mar 1, 1999 11:53 pm
8228
Previous announcements of HyBrick's support for XPointer have not detailed which features are supported. One reason of course is that the discussion of...
Ralph Ferris
ralph@...
Mar 2, 1999 1:04 am
8229
... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN...
matt@...
Mar 2, 1999 1:49 am
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... It is my understanding that Unicode 3.0 will have many ideographic characters which are outside of the BMP. ... Attached is quoted from A2 of N1396 ISO/IEC...
MURATA Makoto
murata@...
Mar 2, 1999 2:39 am
8231
... Please explain what: Content-type: text/xhtml can possibly do for you that: Content-type: text/xml; doctype="http://www.w3.org/xhtml.dtd" cannot do. (Note:...
Jonathan Borden
jborden@...
Mar 2, 1999 3:36 am
8232
... <root><things><thing></thing><thing></thing></things><another></another> </root> ... Another reason for a collection layer is human readability. This is ...
Ronald Bourret
rbourret@...
Mar 2, 1999 8:58 am
8233
Hello there! given the following XML-snippet: <customers> <customer id="foo"> <name>Bart Simpson</name> </customer> <customer id="bar"> <name>Homer...
Stefan Kreutter
stefan@...
Mar 2, 1999 12:57 pm
8234
I've been browsing throught the archives for an answer to this question, but I haven't been able to find anything that seems to give a completely unambiguous...
Miles Sabin
msabin@...
Mar 2, 1999 1:30 pm
8235
... Firstly, the extra markup can be used to impose extra validity constraints, which means you application has to do less checking. Secondly, the extra markup...
Kay Michael
Michael.Kay@...
Mar 2, 1999 3:11 pm
8236
... It's not 100% clear to me whether the reference to Part2 violates the WFC "PEs in Internal Subset", which states (inter alia) that "parameter-entity...
John Cowan
cowan@...
Mar 2, 1999 4:25 pm
8237
... I agree, except that I would prefer to see an FPI rather than (or in addition to) a URI. That would be extensible to HTML as well as XHTML, and therefore...