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Peter Murray-Rust wrote: >I am trying to create tools for looking at hyperlink structure within XML >documents and would like comment on the role of IDREF... I have been using IDREF to represent relationships within a genealogical data set, but with considerable reservations because I would prefer something that extends naturally to cross-file links using XLL. If I use IDREF I get the benefit of not having to do the validation myself; if I prefix my IDREF's with a "#" they become forwards compatible to XLL but I lose the benefit of validation. I would be more enthusiastic about the XLL approach if it wasn't so full of hyperlink behaviour. I want to model a relationship between two objects that happen to be in different datasets. All the XLL stuff about the manner in which links are followed is to me entirely presentation-oriented and I don't want it in my data thankyou very much. From that point of view I prefer the IDREF style of specification which says nothing about the behavioural characteristics of the link. What I really need is a "distributed IDREF". Mike Kay xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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