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Just to state the alternative to a "document of documents": a meta-document structure can address many of the same needs, at some loss of locality-of-reference. Consider the direction that Xlink is taking, where in addition to documents being able to specify links to each other -- including links that essentially function as "import" or "include" requests -- it's possible to write a separate document that builds associations between two documents that are completely unaware of this higher-level structure. Hyperlinking and metadata aren't a 100% overlap with the document-of-documents concept; there obviously are times when you really do want all the information to be bundled together (for digital signature of the composite, perhaps, if it's to be treated as a single legal document). But this may be another case where the simple solution handles 90% of the problem for 10% of the effort. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research Unless stated otherwise, all opinions are solely those of the author. 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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