A Bunch Of XML Recommendations

KjetilK writes "During the past couple of days, the World Wide Web Consortium, have advanced several core XML-specifications to Recommendations. You have the Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.1 as well as XML 1.0 Third Edition. In addition, XML Infoset Second Edition is now a Recommendation and VoiceXML 2.0 is now Proposed Recommendation."

Comments

go standards!

[Chris_Jefferson]

So, XML is the "standard to end all standards, the way in which every single application can communicate with every other application from now till the end of time"

Until they bring out XML 1.1 of course, and now half the apps will be 1.0 complient, and the other half 1.1, therefore destroying the main purpose of XML.

I'm not saying that this update wasn't probably necessary or useful, but all those people who were using XML because "Its the most standardist standard of all time!" should probably take note.

Re:go standards!

[jilles]

The list of changes is pretty much limited to being more tolerant to newer unicode specifications (which xml depends on and which werent available at the time xml 1.0 was finalized)and to avoid similar adjustments to the spec in the future. I.e. any well formed xml 1.0 document is also xml1.1 compliant. There may be some exotic xml1.1 documents (using some unicode exotic characters) that are not well formed xml 1.0. This change is very defensible, unless you are willing to freeze the unicode spec four years ago. The changes have no consequences whatsoever for the validity of existing xml documents (correct me if I'm wrong) and they should work exactly the same (namely as specified by the w3c) in xml1.1 processors.

XML 1.1 incompatibility

[kherr]

Elliotte Rusty Harold has a persuasive argument against XML 1.1. He is someone who's opinion should be considered. He writes very thorough, good books on XML and has created the most excellent XOM (same goal as DOM, but easy to use). He also keeps us current on the XML world at Cafe con Leche.