Martin J. Duerst wrote:
How can a MIME processor or vCard application extract a vCard fragment
from the XML document? To do so, somebody has to parse the document. But
if somebody has to parse it anyway, it should be really easy to find
which namespace appears in the document. Thus, there is not much point
in having namespace information in the MIME header.
If we apply this argument fully, then the doctype is also not necessary.
Exactly.
I would like to know advantages and disadvantages of Larry's obvious
solution (i.e., dispatch to the general-purpose XML parser which further
dispatch to appropriate applictions).
Makoto
Fuji Xerox Information Systems
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