- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:02:47 +0100
- To: "Alan Ruttenberg" <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, public-owl-wg@w3.org
On 12 Sep 2008, at 11:11, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Thanks for the summary of the problem, which addresses my > understanding of the issue. The idea of having an inclusion mechanism > in addition to imports seems like a reasonable idea and I would > support such a move in general. However the proposal to link it to XML > raises issues - there are different serializations of RDF and it is > preferable to have a solution that is independent of a particular > serialization, as others have pointed out in different discussions > earlier in the working group. In addition the use of the general power > of XInclude and XPointer seems like substantially more than what is > needed here, and may impose implementation burden as the technology is > not afaik, not widely deployed. I'm not sure how unwidely deployed it is, a simple googling reveals: http://www.altova.com/dev_portal_xinclude.html http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/xia/index.html http://xincluder.sourceforge.net/ http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/xinclude-transformer.html http://developer.mozilla.org/En/XInclude http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xinclude.html http://www.topxml.com/code/cod-431_9761_xincludenet-10.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302291.aspx http://www.tkachenko.com/blog/archives/000547.html Actually, I think the last is pretty dispositive. If it's bundled with .NET it's ipso facto widely available. If it's in libxml, likewise. It's er..."included"...with XMLSpy... Cheers, Bijan.
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