TR9401 catalogs [was RE: XPDL (was Re: XML is broken)]

Subject: TR9401 catalogs [was RE: XPDL (was Re: XML is broken)]
From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:33:07 -0500
At 22:47 1999 04 12 -0400, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
>> 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.

If there are any bugs in the grammar of TR9401:1997 [1], I'd like to 
hear about them.  I know you've made this claim before, Gavin, but I've 
never actually found any bugs nor has James.

paul

[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/html/a401.htm


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