four XPointer schemes

I've written four additional XPointer scheme drafts that now can't be
published through the Internet-Draft process until November 22 or
thereabouts. (IETF cutoff on initial drafts for the November meeting.)

All four of these drafts are designed primarily to ask questions about
the nature of XPointer in particular and fragment identifiers in
general rather than provide conclusive answers in any event, so limbo
may be an appropriate status.  I consider all of these completely
experimental at this stage, but it seems worthwhile to publish them
now, while the work on RFC 2396 revision is just getting started and as
XPointer work winds down.

These documents specify schemes for use in XPointer-based fragment
identifiers. These schemes, like other XPointer Framework schemes, are
designed primarily for use with the XML Media Types defined in RFC
3023, to identify locations within a given XML representation of a
resource.

If anyone would like to make comments on the initial versions of these
documents prior to their submission as Internet-Drafts, I'd be happy to
hear them.  In many ways, this makes more sense than having a single
person publish initial Internet Drafts anyway, and many of these ideas
emerged from various xml-dev discussions.  Comments should probably be
directed to xml-dev.

The four not-quite drafts are: 
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The XPointer xinclude1() Scheme
http://simonstl.com/ietf/draft-stlaurent-xinclude-frag-00.html

The xinclude() scheme notifies an XPointer processor whether the
creator of the XPointer intended for XInclude 1.0 processing to take
place.

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The XPointer xmlns-local() Scheme
http://simonstl.com/ietf/draft-stlaurent-xmlns-local-frag-00.html

The xmlns-local() scheme notifies an XPointer processor that it should
include all of the namespace binding context defined for the element
containing the XPointer in the namespace binding context for the
XPointer.

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The XPointer content-type() Scheme
http://simonstl.com/ietf/draft-stlaurent-content-type-frag-00.html

The content-type() scheme notifies an XPointer processor whether the
creator of the XPointer intended for a particular pointer part to apply
to a resource representation which uses a particular MIME content type
identifier.

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The XPointer pipeline1() Scheme
http://simonstl.com/ietf/draft-stlaurent-pipeline-frag-00.html

The pipeline1() scheme notifies an XPointer processor whether the 
creator of the XPointer intended for XML Pipeline Definition Language
processing to take place.

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Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA
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urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether

Received on Tuesday, 29 October 2002 16:26:02 UTC