Subj : Re: E4X support in mozilla?
To   : =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Georg_Maa=DF?=
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Sat Jan 08 2005 02:09 pm

Georg Maaß wrote:
> Brendan Eich wrote:
> 
>> No, you need to enable e4x=1.  Again, the XML constructor is exposed to 
> 
>                              ^
> What is this 1? Is this a flag, or is it a version number, or what is 
> the meaning of this 1?

That's a good question.  MIME parameters need values, so we can't have 
just e4x.  Also, the E4X spec adopted by ECMA is likely to be ECMA-357 
Edition 1, and the fixed (see the errata in bug 246441) spec going to 
ISO shortly will become ECMA-357 Edition 2.

So I meant to use that 1 as a "truth" value at first, but quickly saw 
that it was likely to mean "Edition 1".  Either way, it works, but I 
would rather not support all Editions.  I'll talk to the TG1 working 
group about this, since we're trying to get the w3c to do the right 
thing instead of making up MIME types, and since ECMA's name (or at 
least its initial) is being used here.

/be

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