- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 21:24:05 +0000
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
At 10:47 07/10/96 +0000, Tim Bray wrote: >I am in agreement with most of James' points. The one where (at the >moment) I part company is best exemplified by a particular piece of text >that Michael and I are working with heavily these days - namely the outline >of the XML spec. In the middle, one fines the following: > ><BODY> >&Intro; >&Docs; >&Elements; >&Entities; >.... > >It's tough to imagine how we could do collaborative authoring in Vancouver >and Chicago without this kind of facility, which certainly doesn't require >the application of an OO database, etc.; and this is quite a non-trivial >task. Or am I missing something? Some SGML parsers already allow the document entity to be spread out of multiple files; for example, with nsgmls, you could say nsgmls header.sgm Intro.sgm Docs.sgm Elements.sgm Entities.sgm and the effective document entity would be the concatenation of all files specified as arguments. If your XML parser doesn't do this, you can just use "cat". Whether it's something simple like file concatenation or something complex like a OO database, I think ways can be found to solve this sort of problem outside of XML. James
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