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Re: XPath 1.5? (was RE: typing and markup)

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: Re: XPath 1.5? (was RE: typing and markup)
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 10:54:41 -0600
• Cc: "'uche.ogbuji@f...'" <uche.ogbuji@f...>, Matthew Gertner <matthew.gertner@s...>, "'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> of "Tue, 07 May 2002 10:22:16 CDT." <2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E430752B400@HQ5>
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> Yep.  Don't build system dependencies into the core.
> 
> On the other hand, can someone authoritatively say 
> what is core and what is a system profile for XML?

It's a good question, and a hard one.  I have no recourse to fall back to the old dodge that determining what is core is an art and not a science.  My erotica is your porn.

But there is certainly room for common sense here.  As much as I find RDF I would be out of my skull to suggest mixing it into the core of XML.  I would have hoped for such restraint from the application-specific data typing folks.  I have no doubt they find their wizardry useful, and I'll even admit it is useful to me at times, but the whole is served better with proper modularity.


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