• To: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Subject: Re: ANN: xpath1() scheme for XPointer
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 08:28:08 -0700
• Cc: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>, xml-dev@l...
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Uche Ogbuji wrote:

> >From: "Simon St.Laurent"
>
> >I've never quite cottened on to why XIncludes are useful.  Is it because
> >the longevity of ID/IDREF means that "document scope" has not gone
> >away, yet because entities are not first-class constructs in XML the 
> current
> >generation of tools promotes an all-element solution (and bugger the
> >structure)?
>
>
> To me, the following are the most useful things about XIncludes which are
> lacking in EPEs:

I also thought XInclude sounded plausible and useful when they first 
started talking about it, but I have to say it has been almost 
completely ignored.  -Tim

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