[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Using XIncludes to include infosets
At 5:30 PM +0100 2/2/04, Peter Ring wrote: >Thanks for the clarifications (and sorry for top-posting this way) > >Yes, I hinted to the xpointer() scheme draft >http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-xpointer/ > >Is it possible to state something in general terms (suitable for docbook-aps >rather than xml-dev) about what goes on? Pointing at document fragments is a >fairly basic thing; are we -- eventually -- to expect conceptually coherent >framework? > No, you should not expect such a thing, at least not from the W3C. The effort to develop such a syntax there failed, and is unlikely to be restarted anytime in the next few years. It's always possible a third party(s) will develop their own solution which could achieve de facto adoption. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]