Re: What's an "XML Fragment"?

["John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:31 AM 10/09/2000 -0400, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> At 4:43 PM -0400 10/8/00, John E. Simpson wrote:
> > I have no inside information, obviously, but I just read that as a 
> > reference to XML fragments as defined by the apparently moribund XML 
> > Fragment Interchange WD (last updated 6/30/99). Although nothing seems to 
> > be happening with that WD, it was still fairly current as of the time the 
> > XSLT WD went to Recommendation.
> >
> > See:
> >    http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-fragment#terminology
>
> That sounds possible. The big issue with that interpretation is that the 
> XML Fragment Interchange WD is not listed as a normative or non-normative 
> reference by the XSLT spec.

Yeah, I know. (Presumably, since the Fragment Interchange never went to 
Rec, it would have to be non-normative.) After I posted that message last 
night, I went back to look at the earlier XSLT drafts; Fragment Interchange 
wasn't referenced from them, either. The only connection I can establish 
between the two is that Paul Grosso of Arbortext was on both WGs; you might 
try e-mailing him to ask if the connection is coincidental, or intentional 
but undocumented.

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