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Re: Roy Fielding on XPointer

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• Subject: Re: Roy Fielding on XPointer
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:53:37 -0500
• In-reply-to: <048f01c27fb5$229d56a0$6400a8c0@JMG>

jgreif@a... (Jeff Greif) writes:
>One of Fielding's criticisms seems ill-judged:
>
> 4) focuses on mechanical identification of XML elements (fragile and
> media-type-specific) rather than the content (section 
> heading, paragraph number, paragraph text, etc.).
>
>since XPointer is meant to be used on documents that don't necessarily
>have sections and paragraphs.

I don't see any way around that one either, except maybe strict
adherence to IDs, which doesn't seem likely.

1, 2, and 3 seem like they might be plausibly addressed, but without
(4), I'm not sure the exercise works.  

Perhaps the URI reference infrastructure needs some rethinking?

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Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA
http://simonstl.com may be my URI
http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether

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