Re: issue 168 proposal: xsi:type of external references in Encoding (fwd) from Jean-Jacques Moreau on 2001-12-20 (xml-dist-app@w3.org from December 2001)

From: Jean-Jacques Moreau <moreau@crf.canon.fr>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:15:01 +0100
To: Christopher Ferris <chris.ferris@sun.com>
CC: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Message-ID: <3C21D645.9A65FFEB@crf.canon.fr>

+1

Christopher Ferris wrote:

> Agreed that using IDREF provides no guarantees that the
> graph is closed, etc. However, what it does do is provide
> the deserialization mechanism with an understanding that
> if it finds that the referenced node is not present,
> that that is an error and it can respond with a Fault.
> It also provides the receiving node with an understanding
> that it need do nothing special to resolve the referenced
> nodes.

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