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RE: Xinclude word-smithing

From: Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) <dbooth@hp.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:18:22 -0400
Message-ID: <EBBD956B8A9002479B0C9CE9FE14A6C202C85E1A@tayexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>
To: "Murray Maloney" <murray@muzmo.com>
Cc: "GRDDL Working Group" <public-grddl-wg@w3.org>

> From: public-grddl-wg-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-grddl-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Murray Maloney
> [ . . . ]
> As to licence to use xi:include, any XML processor that supports
> the XInclude specification is free to exercise the specification.
> No further licence is required or sought. If you have any 
> real interest
> in the content of a document, then you are also interested in any
> transclusions that it may contain, and so on, as long as you can
> follow your nose. That's the web.

Are you suggesting that the GRDDL WG *should* make a decision on the
question of whether XInclude expansion is licensed?

> If your application or agent chooses to inhibit XInclude 
> processing, use it
> to meet your needs. You may get fewer triples than me, but you will
> feel confident knowing that you didn't need the extraneous 
> information.

Point of clarification: it is not just a matter of producing fewer
triples, it is also a matter of producing *different* triples --
different assertions.


David Booth, Ph.D.
HP Software
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