• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Jesper Tverskov'" <jesper.tverskov@g...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:40:23 -0000

> 
> Would you say that a new basic text book about XML should 
> hardly mention XInclude, XLink, and XPointer at all, at least 
> not in whole chapters, but maybe in some paragraph in a 
> chapter about failed standards?

In the case of XLink and XPointer, yes: I'd say these are historical
curiosities, and the only interest in them is in understanding why they
failed.

XInclude I think has some merit: even if it's not widely used, it's viable
to use it, and there are situations where I would recommend using it in
preference to external entity references. But plain URIs held in
user-defined attributes are probably just as effective for many
applications.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 

• References:
  • Failed XML standards
    • From: Jesper Tverskov <jesper.tverskov@g...>