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Re: [rfc-i] deprecating relref

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 09 April 2021 23:29 UTC

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It appears that Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@mozilla.com> said:
>On 4/9/21 2:18 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I believe the direction to insert *all* defaults is totally
>> misguided; it leads to "canonical" XML that's full with completely
>> useless information.
>
>Agreed. The whole point of a default is you don't need to include it (as
>long as the schema doesn't change from under you, so let's not do that).

If you look at RFC 7998, the reason the preptool fills in all the
defaults is exactly so that the defaults can change later.

I don't think that is a terribly compelling argument, particularly since we have yet to
see a default we'd want to change, but it's not an accident.

R's,
John
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