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On Thu, 18 May 2000, Stephen T. Mohr wrote: > The problem is that different consumers require different representations, > and simply supplying a URL doesn't address this. Is anyone interested in > discussing a simple protocol for managing different representations over an > HTTP-based URL? > > Just off the top of my head, I'm thinking something on the order of posting > a desired MIME type and receiving the appropriate document. Thus, my > application might request a schema, but when I can't get it to work I'd use > my dev environment to request the HTML documentation. Or perhaps the URL > returns a list of supported representations and their individual URLs. This sounds very much like what extended links (as in XLink) were designed for. Extended links, of course, can be out-of-line and need not even be directly "pointed at" by one of their participants, so they strike me as a reasonable way to handle "packaging" issues--certainly a more reliable way than tieing the packaging mechanism to a particular transport protocol like HTTP. *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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