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Re: limits of the generic

• To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Subject: Re: limits of the generic
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:22:08 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <1033406003.1771.656.camel@ibook>

On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 10:13 AM, Eric van der Vlist wrote:

>> Personally, it's not an interesting solution to me because I want
>> links to be manifest even in well-formed documents that don't have a
>> W3C XML Schema, let alone documents that use other schema 
>> technologies.
>
> I don't want to be nasty, but can't this be interpreted as defining
> limits to what the PSVI can be used for and denying its implicit claim
> to be generic which was (as far as I can remember since this thread is
> becoming difficult to follow) Simon's initial point?

I'm 100% with Norm.  I want the markup to explicit and 
self-documenting, as opposed to off in the PSVI which you only compute 
by fetching another (potentially large & complex) resource and 
processing it.  I have grave concerns about the PSVI in general and its 
"implicit claims to be generic" in particular.

> You want links to be manifest in well formed documents because links 
> are
> obviously important to you but couldn't I want the same for any other
> type which is important to me?

Yep, but I think links have special importance to the Web and should be 
manifest in documents used on the Web. -Tim

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