RE: XPDL (was Re: XML is broken)

["Gavin Thomas Nicol" <gtn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The manifest is a special purpose XML instance that contains
> no content, just a collection of links. I also imagined it to be recursive
(you
> could point to other manifests, too).

This is good, but I think you should not disallow packing the manifest and
the
data together. That was the advantage of the proposal I helped Don with.
It allowed mixed push and pull modes (and yes, we also allowed recursion).

As I said, I have prototyped such a scheme using the TR9401 catalog syntax
(and found lot's of bugs in it's grammar in the process), and I most
certainly
*would* like to see something similar in XML + XLink + XPointer.




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