At 2:46 PM -0800 3/17/97, Terry Allen wrote: >There are two points here, which have not been distinguished clearly >in what Tim has posted, although I'm sure he has them distinct in >his mind. > > 1. What is the URL fragment syntax for XML; that is, what do > fragment identifiers mean wrt XML? This is the problem we must solve. > > 2. How can the TEI mechanism be used in URLs in general? I don't see why we should care. We are defining XML. If TEI pointers are useful for PDF, let Adobe worry about it. >After all, I might want to use URLs with TEI xptrs to point to >almost any kind of data, not solely XML. Sure, but what does that signify for XML. Nothing, I think. >Tim's remarks about large XML documents apply just as well to >other data formats; they can be big, it may be desired to retrieve >only parts of them, and so on. It should not be assumed that TEI >xptrs are going to be used solely with XML, and thus a solution to >(1) above does not provide an answer to (2), unless the limiting >assumption is made that for every large data format a special >query language must be constructed. They can use our query language if it suits, but I fail to see issue 2 as even peripherally a concern of this group. -- 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 \__________________________Received on Wednesday, 19 March 1997 13:19:27 EST
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