Re: CIQ Specifications & XLink

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

Michael,

You need not use xLink as it is an optional feature.

Regards,

Ram

On 8/11/06, michael.blaim@kremsresearch.at
<michael.blaim@kremsresearch.at> wrote:
>
> Dear Ram,
>
> Thanks for the reply. Of course XLink offers this possibility but as I said
> just in theory. We are not sure whether to use XLink or go back to 'simple'
> IDs. We don't think that there's a possibility to implement the
> specifications with XLink. And we haven't found a list of implementations of
> CIQ TC specifications yet. Does something like this exist? We are eager to
> know something about XLink implementations.
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Ram Kumar [mailto:kumar.sydney@gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. August 2006 16:22
> An: michael.blaim@kremsresearch.at
> Cc: ciq@lists.oasis-open.org; Max Voskob
> Betreff: Re: CIQ Specifications & XLink
>
> 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:
> >
> > 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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