- From: Arjun Ray <aray@q2.net>
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 02:25:27 -0400 (EDT)
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, S. Mike Dierken wrote: > [...] but XML already has an ID scoping mechanism - it is the > 'document' concept. A document IS a scope. Wow! I never thought that I would read this on a w3c list... > XML is a single document specification - it is a modular thing and > multi-document concepts can be layered on top. There is no need to > add more and more things into the base definition of XML. Many > people have been using this internal-ref and external-ref approach > for many years - just look at the Web. [...] > In short, I am against putting multi-document concepts into a > single-document specification. There will always be a need to > reference things outside the current document, and that mechanism > is sufficient to deal with the problem. An echo from the past: http://list.mc.duke.edu/scripts/WA.EXE?A2=ind9806&L=sgml-hl7&F=&S=&P=5337 (If the link doesn't work - they're having problems with the server - <URL:http://www.nyct.net/~aray/notes/wek-namespaces.txt> is a copy.) Arjun
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