Re: CIQ Specifications & XLink

["Ram Kumar" <kumar.sydney@gmail.com>]

Dear Michael,

The reason we want to use XLink is that it simplifies providing
links between multiple resources (e.g parties) and relationships
between the resources that might exist in multiple documents.

Regards,

Ram

On 8/11/06, michael.blaim@kremsresearch.at
<michael.blaim@kremsresearch.at> wrote:
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> Dear Mr Kumar,
>
> We are currently working on an XML specification for customer (party)
> information for travel and tourism with special focus on data protection and
> security. We use xNL, xAL (v3.0) and xCRL (v2.0, but we are looking forward
> to v3.0). These specifications really meet our requirements (flexibility,
> scalability, granularity etc) so far. The one thing we are not sure of is
> the XLink references. Although XLink is ideal for XML references in theory
> we can't find a way to put it into practice (with processors, parsers etc).
> So what is the reason for CIQ TC to use XLink?
>
> Best regards
> Michael Blaim
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