- From: MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) <EB2M-MRT@asahi-net.or.jp>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 06:19:43 +0900
- To: "David Orchard" <dorchard@bea.com>
- Cc: "'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org, www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
David, > Murato, Thanks for your invention, but my given name is Makoto and my family name is Murata. > XInclude doesn't misinterpret the frag identifiers. The frag identifiers are > indeed authoritative. It simply that the content is viewed as a different > media type. Kind of like Casting in programming languages. I think that this casting is not allowed by the WWW architecture. I would ask the TAG to review the XInclude CR and make a decision. > I don't believe that the architecture of the web precludes clients > interpreting the representations in ways other than the resource owner > intended via the metadata associated with the representation. They should > do so carefully. And I think XInclude treads the ground carefully. Actually, I am sympathetic with this argument. I am not sure the WWW architecture is right. I still do not understand why fragment identifiers are part of URI references and their interpretation is controlled by media types. If we did not have fragment identifiers at all, XInlude would have specified XPointer-like information by elements and attributes (without using the ugly xmlns scheme) and we would not have any problems. Are fragment identifiers merely harmful? Cheers, -- MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) <EB2M-MRT@asahi-net.or.jp>
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