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Dave Winer wrote: > > What I'd like to say is that the webmaster should change the old file to > "redirect" to the new file. > > Something like this: > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <redirect>http://www.fool.com/directory/file.xml</redirect> > > ... > > Is there any provision in the XML specs for redirecting in this manner or a > similar one? No, but I think that there should be. Existing mechanisms are server-specific and thus not open. You could use an XLink with "auto"/"replace" but the behavior of the XLink behavioral attributes are massively underspecified and downright dangerous. I hope that they are gone by the time the specification goes gold. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco And so, in one of history's little ironies, the global triumph of bad software in the age of the PC was reversed by a surprising combination of forces: the social transformation initiated by the network, a long-discarded European theory of political economy, and a small band of programmers throughout the world mobilized by a single simple idea. - http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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