DR 10-0035 ? MCE: Dropping preserveElements and preserveAttributes

[Chris Rae]

Shall we put this DR on the agenda for discussion in Beijing? You're right that there's a lot of crossover with your Part 3 revision notes, so perhaps it makes sense to deal with this face-to-face.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) [mailto:eb2m-mrt at asahi-net.or.jp] 
Sent: 15 November 2010 17:22
To: e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org
Subject: Re: DR 10-0035 ? MCE: Dropping preserveElements and preserveAttributes

Chris,

> I'd agree that we should address this sort of thing in a revision 
> rather than a COR - however, we do need to agree on the semantics of 
> the changes and so it doesn't seem to do any harm to resolve these DRs 
> in WG4 and then make sure that their resolutions are worked into the 
> revision when we make headway on that.

Agreed.

> I think what you want regarding markup editors is covered by another 
>DR
>(10-0034 C&E: Drop Application-Defined Extension Elements).

Disagree.  Markup editors are introduced only for (loosely) describing preserveElements and preserveAttributes.  Can application-defined extension elements also be used for preserving something?  I didn't know that.

I also think that you missed some of the changes I made.  For example:

4. Terms and Definitions

Drop "Markup editor" and "preserve"

9.1	Core Concept

Drop "Within a markup document, a markup producer might also use Markup Compatibility attributes to suggest to a markup editor that the editor attempt to preserve some ignored elements or attributes.
The markup editor can attempt to persist these ignored elements and attributes when saving a markup document, despite the editor's inability to recognize the purpose of these ignored elements and attributes."

11. Model for Markup Consumption

Drop " In addition to producing such transformed output, the markup preprocessor might also implement mechanisms to optionally provide to a markup editor the additional information necessary to preserve some ignored content. "


Cheers,
Makoto