Re: extensibility -> pxfim

I doubt that such a general theory alone would be more useful for RIF than a
simple policy of rejecting documents that have new tags. It could be
useful as an XML framework for fallback mechanisms, but then the hard part
would be to figure out how to specialize it for RIF and make it do
something non-trivial.

Of course, this is just my general feeling. It is based only on the
understanding that the problem is very hard.

But divesting RIF from the responsibility of doing something in this
respect is a very tempting proposition :-)

	--michael  


> I'm trying to understand whether it makes sense to factor the
> extensibility mechanism out of RIF entirely.
> 
> As sort of a trial balloon, I've given it a name and thrown together a
> skeletal editor's draft, so we can point non-RIF folks at it.
> 
>    http://www.w3.org/2007/11/pxfim/
> 
> I have no idea at this point where this document will go.  It might well
> be discarded as silly, if no one outside of RIF is motivated/interested.
> But if there is enough interest from outside of RIF, it might continue
> and RIF might be able to divest itself of this technical work.  
> 
>       - Sandro
> 
>

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