Subject: RE: XPDL (was Re: XML is broken) From: "Ed Nixon" <ed.nixon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 18:54:54 -0400 |
I keep waiting for someone to ask the (perhaps stupid) question: "Is this 'problem' not something that RDF is designed or at least capable of dealing with?" I have been conditioned to think of RDF as a kind of super-DTD but obviously it is more general and more malleable. Why not? ...edN > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Elliotte Rusty > Harold > Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 9:12 AM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: XPDL (was Re: XML is broken) > > > At 4:00 PM -0400 4/6/99, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > > >That's pretty much what an XPDL file looks like, with hrefs > pointing to all > >sizable chunks of information. It's not a manifest for a particular > >document (it's referenced by the document, rather than it > referencing the > >document), but that functionality wouldn't be difficult to add for > >particular use-cases. > > > > I really wonder about this approach. It strikes me that the > document should > be the document, and all this differet information should > come from outside > of it. I really don't like the idea of embedding even a > simple link to the > XPDS stuff inside the document. I guess I'm prejudiced here > based on my > experience with style sheets where <?xml-stylesheet?> has > caused me nothing > but trouble. I hate having to edit my documents to apply a > different style > sheet, especially when I frequently want to switch between > more than one > style sheet for a single document. > > What about using a standard naming convention for attaching > XPDL info to > documents? Or HTTP headers? Possibly but not necessarily > backed up by a > processing instruction, where the processing instruction has > the lowest > priority? My fundamental problem here is that I view this as > a sort of > layered approach, and I don't want the lower layers (XML) to have any > knowledge of the upper layers (XLL, XSL, XPDL, etc.) > > > +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ > | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Writer/Programmer | > +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ > | XML: Extensible Markup Language (IDG Books 1998) | > | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764531999/cafeaulaitA/ | > +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ > | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://sunsite.unc.edu/javafaq/ | > | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://sunsite.unc.edu/xml/ | > +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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