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Re: XPointer and XML Schema

• To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@c...>
• Subject: Re: XPointer and XML Schema
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: 17 Jul 2002 19:19:39 +0200
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On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 18:30, Henry S. Thompson wrote:

> We could do that, but it would be wrong (in my view).  Wrong because
> it violates locality -- a barename link with name XYZZY is to what the
> _target_ establishes as is its XYZZY ID, not the source.  

Can you clarify what you are calling the source and what you are calling
the target?

AFAIK (but I may be wrong), when an application is "retrieving" a
fragment, the isolation of the fragment is done "client side" by the
application itself. If the schema location is determined "client side"
too, this is a more loosely coupled system than I have been asking on
this list :-) ... Is the idea really to say to the client application, I
refer to fragment "XYZZY" per your naming convention whatever it is?


> Think of how
> it works with DTDs, and a complex case with external entities and
> catalogues and proxies and . . .  There's nothing I can do at the
> source end to determine what the target is going to establish as the
> referent under those circumstances.  So I don't think there should be
> for the Schema case either.  

Not really. When I say that I want to access to anchor "boo" per the
(X)HTML naming system, the rules are set by the server.

> The _user_ does that by setting up the
> processing environment, in either case.

What do you mean?

Thanks.

Eric

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