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Re: XPointer and XML Schema

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• Subject: Re: XPointer and XML Schema
• From: "Jeff Rafter" <jeffrafter@d...>
• Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 21:16:23 -0500
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Great questions...

>    3. Make the schemalocation hint manditory to provide, and manditory to
> dereference for Schema-Loading, WRT XPointer.

This option really scares me! This (as has been mentioned on this list
several times) means that the document instance controls its own destiny--
which may be good in some situations but very bad in others (e.g.
discovering network topology).  Also, performance comes under the gun-- if a
browser maker has a local copy of a schema that is used as an override then
manditory dereferencing is overkill... that may be a red-herring though.

So yes, very concerned....

All the best,
Jeff Rafter
Defined Systems
http://www.defined.net
XML Development and Developer Web Hosting

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