RE: issue 168 proposal: xsi:type of external references in Encoding

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> From: xml-dist-app-request@w3.org
> [mailto:xml-dist-app-request@w3.org]On
> Behalf Of Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 4:01 PM
> To: David Orchard; Noah Mendelsohn; Andrew Layman
> Cc: jacek; xml-dist-app
> Subject: RE: issue 168 proposal: xsi:type of external references in
> Encoding
>
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>
> > I understand people's motivations - I had them myself at one
> >point - but IMHO there is no easy/reasonable/useful thing to
> >do given our schedule.
>
> I agree and on a slightly more serious note, I would from a
> general Web
> architecture point of view suggest that we not go down this particular
> slippery slope.
>
> Henrik
>

That's certainly my position on this issue.  And on an even slightly more
serious note, I'm not sure that I would want the TAG to tackle this issue.
Though the TAG could(should?) identify this as an open issue for the web
architecture.  I just don't see a reasonable solution.  I have visions of
CORBA externalization with double de-referencing and other nasty surprises.

Dave