XFM (or something similar)

[Dan Vint]

I like the idea of having it on both ends my self. 

It would be nice to have a clear statement of everything that the tools
support 
 - xslt
 - xpath
 - xls wd 1.2
 - dom level 1
 - xml validator - use class XXX
 - xml nonvalidator use class YYY
 - and on down the line
 - then it would be nice to know what they do extra or in a non-standard way

This is just going to get worst the way the specifications process seems to
be going and it is the marriage between what your document/data requires
and what the tool supports that will make a combination sink or swim.

..dan


At 02:34 PM 11/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Turn it around -- require a document to specify what capabilities it
>requires of a processor beyond the core, e.g., XLink.  XFM might be
>interesting to an installer, but how often do you choose a parser?  I'd like
>to open a document and find out right away if my tools are sufficient to
>consume it.
>
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