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I don't know if that was a request for comments or not, but.... the document seems a little loose about distinguishing: - the problem of how to associate/identify a related resource from within another (linking) - the problem of determining what related resources exist for a given document (perhaps scoped by type), when that given document does not have embedded/inlined information (discovery) - the problem of how to map through a level of naming indirection, whereby there is a known relation to a name but not to an explicitly identified location (resolution) The first seems easily solvable by a standardization from among the plethora of existing mechanisms. The last seems solvable, and there are already a variety of proposals (rfc2169, draft-ietf-urn-dns-rds-01.txt, cowan's "XML Catalog", etc..), but it seems vulnerable to commercial stonewalling. The second seems both technically hard and vulnerable to commercial politics, so i'm not hopeful. -mda --On Monday, September 27, 1999 1:35 PM -0700 Tim Bray <tbray@t...> wrote: > I (and I think some other people) are becoming increasingly convinced > that the need for some sort of an "XML Packaging" facility is becoming > increasingly urgent. I was asked to write up a motivating statement for > the XML Plenary meeting that is happening this Wednesday. I thought that > the xml-deviants might also find it of interest. > > It's at http://www.textuality.com/xml/why-pkg.html -Tim 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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