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 I haven't had time to participate in this list for several years, so maybe only old-timers will remember me. I worked on the original definition of XML, and have been working on XLink and XPointer for the past several years. I am writing to urge immediate action related to Xpointer, if you care about it. Xpointer seems to be under imminent threat of being gutted. There appears to be a significant chance that there will be no XPointer at all, or only a drastically cut down one. Particularly endangered are the ability to have ranges of any kind, or any forms of addressing other than "bare names" or maybe child sequence locations. I would urge anyone in the XML community who is interested in Xpointer's final approval with its current feature set to write immediately to the W3C comment list for Xpointer and Xlink: www-xml-linking-comments@w... Because this is a low-profile list, you may also want to comment to individuals within the W3C as well. I refer you to the web site for any addresses you may need. If you read the archives, you may also be puzzled that the word within the W3c seems to be that XPointer is dead, given the very small number of negative comments submitted. [There's no denying that the one I found in quick scan of the archives for the last 4 months was very negative]. However, such issues are irrelevant at this point. You _can_ have a positive effect by contributing comments urging to the W3C to accept the standard as is, or feature complete, but with conformance levels added. All such postings will be greatly increased in impact by testimonials about how you intend to use Xpointer, or are already using it. I have had the sense that there are a lot of people waiting for the standard to be final before they proceed; if you are someone like that, speak up! or you may be waiting forever. If you want Xpointer killed, you can of course relax, because it seems to be dying quickly. -- David -- ------------------------------- David Durand | 12 Bassett St. david.durand@i... | Providence RI, 02903-4628 USA VP, Software Architecture | 401-331-2014 x111 Cell: 401-935-5317 ingenta plc | FAX: 401-331-2015 http://www.dynamicDiagrams.com/ http://www.ingenta.com/ 
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