At 11:48 AM 4/18/97 +0100, Martin Bryan wrote: > There is a good case that can >be made for allowing some form of reusable location source identifier which >is shorter than the full address in any addressing scheme. We have them. They're called "entities". >Incidentally I have just had to recommend dropping the use of XML from a >project simply because I could not manage multiple references to a single >document efficiently. Without the concept of allowing references to a single >document to point to the current address of the file via a short-name, and >without having to update every reference each time the file is moved, it >makes no sense to try to manage link sets using XML. Excuse me once again, I am not understanding why a simple string entity can't take care of this. >The problem is that XML has no concept of BOS This is not true. See section XML-link section 6, "Extended Link Groups". -T.Received on Friday, 18 April 1997 10:45:35 EDT
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