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Chris Maden wrote: > The best way to use transclusion for > reuse, though, is with entities. If something's part of your > document, make it so. Since a system identifier in XML is a URI, and > a URI can include a fragment, and that fragment can be an XPointer, > there's really no limitation on what an entity can be. Au contraire, hélas! XML spec section 5.2: # The SystemLiteral [specified for an external entity] is called the # entity's system identifier. It is a URI, which may be used to retrieve # the entity. Note that the hash mark (#) and fragment identifier # frequently used with URIs are not, formally, part of the URI itself; # an XML processor may signal an error if a fragment identifier is given # as part of a system identifier. "May", of course, is not synonymous with "must", but one cannot count on reliable transclusion of document parts in this way. XLink does allow it. > The reason Steve and I proposed always > distinguishing transclusion is that otherwise, there will be too much > fear of intellectual property theft, and the Web could stagnate. > Theft is always a possibility (copy and paste always works), but it > shouldn't be made easy. An essential part of Xanadu, which the WWW does not have, was a chargeback mechanism, whereby the original author of a transcluded document is paid pro rata when someone buys the right to read the transcluding document. This is related to the "mechanical licensing" policy for sound recordings: one may always, on payment of compensation, play someone else's copyrighted sound recording even without permission. A variety of clearinghouses are used to implement this policy. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) 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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