RE: issue 168 proposal: xsi:type of external references in Encoding (fwd)

 Noah,
 I agree that other question is not settled, but the issues are
orthogonal and past has taught us that overloaded issues are pain
to deal with. 8-)

                   Jacek Kopecky

                   Senior Architect, Systinet (formerly Idoox)
                   http://www.systinet.com/



On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Noah Mendelsohn wrote:

 >
 > Jacek Kopecky suggests:
 >
 > > "The href attribute can in fact point to anything at all and
 > >it's the pointee's responsibility to provide it's type
 > >information. (In case of XML, type can be gotten from a schema
 > >or from the xsi:type attribute inf. item, in other cases by
 > >other means.)"
 >
 > I think the technical proposal is fine.  I suggest a little editorial
 > cleanup as the wording above seems a bit informal for a specification.  I
 > presume this is the sort of thing that the editorial team can do once we
 > approve the general direction.  The core idea seems good (though I think
 > the other question of separating the closed  "in the envelope graph"is not
 > entirely settled).
 >
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