- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 11:04:38 -0500
- To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>, xml-uri@w3.org
At 10:24 AM 2000-05-18 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > >>Which is to say, there needs to be substantial independence between the way >>names and types are managed and the way that parts and wholes of instances >>are managed. The relative URL convention is indeed tied to existing >>virtual-packaging practices which leave web documents with embedded >>dependencies on addressing relationships between themselves and the peers >>they depend on. > >Er - okay. We use relative URLs to point to images, DTDs, included >entities, etc. I don't think that's packaging, unless the document itself >is considered its own package. > The definition of packaging I am using is the creation of portable super-documents. Using relative URI bindings between documents in a local address subtree in effect creates a portable super-document. Because it performs this central function of packaging I termed it "virtual packaging." Al
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