Re: looking for packaging, not a schema (-NOT, counterproposal)

At 10:57 AM 2000-05-18 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>At 11:04 AM 5/18/00 -0500, Al Gilman wrote:
>>The definition of packaging I am using is the creation of portable
>>super-documents. 
>>
>>Using relative URI bindings between documents in a local address subtree in
>>effect creates a portable super-document.  Because it performs this central
>>function of packaging I termed it "virtual packaging."  
>
>So in this case the document _is_ its own package?

I would prefer to say the document, together with any documents on whose
relative location it depends, such as schemas referenced using relative
URIs, constitutes the package.

Al

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