- From: David Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 13:13:27 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 9:52 AM -0600 3/7/97, Len Bullard wrote: >David Durand wrote: >> At 12:33 PM -0800 3/4/97, Tim Bray wrote: >> >4.c The spec will describe some addressing types that we support. Should >> >we be open-ended and include a way to support other user-defined >> >locator languages? >> >> No. The fact that we are defining generalized markup means that users can >> define their own locator languages if they want to -- and have the same >> level of interoperability with the rest of the world (none, without prior >> arrangement). If they want a way to generalize things, they can use HyTime. >> >> For XML linking, no effective purpose is server by knowing that something >> is a locator, if there's no guarantee that it can be resolved. >> >> We should keep XML linking as a specific architecture, not a toolkit. XML >> is a toolkit, and allows for flexibile private arrangements, so lets keep >> links simple and only include features that we are wiling to require of xml >> linking implementors. > >I agree with David particularly with regards to an XML 1.0 version. An >easy to >use but more powerful than current applications version is needed. I >think it >important to emphasize if not in the spec language, at least in the >presentations >that XML Linking is more like TEI and less like HyTime in this: XML >Linking >is an application. It is not a user-extensible meta-language standard >in the >way that XML syntax is. Listen to his words. It's got to mean something when Len and I are both in enthusiastic agreement! -- David _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________
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