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Hate to beat this old horse again, but these problems (and their solutions to some extent) have been around for a long time. SGML handled link frailty with PubIds. The XML interpretation seems to have lost something :-). This is certainly a matter of implementation (and lack thereof) more than specification. And anyone remember SDIF (SGML's little-known or implemented solution to the packaging problem)? I'm not suggesting it should be used now ( at least not without some major updates), but the problem has clearly been recognized long ago. Why do we in fact continue to ignore it today? Michael A. Rossi Computer Sciences Corporation mailto:mrossi@c... 856-983-4400 x4911 Tim Bray <tbray@textua To: xml-dev@l... lity.com> cc: Subject: Re: Interoperability 11/14/01 04:04 PM All good points. But I don't think they have much to do with interoperability of XML. You've pointed out what is a horrible problem - the infrastructure has really lousy support for dealing with multiple related resourcse that you need to bring together to do a job. There are little bits & pieces of machinery around: multipart-mime, RDDL, etc. Interestingly, they tried to start a "packaging" activity up over at W3C but it expired for lack of interest. I've been kind of surprised that there isn't more energy being pointed at this problem. Still am. -Tim
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