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>As for "document trees" (groves), the initial result is *never* a single >tree containing the results of parsing two documents (if the thing used by >reference is another document). However, a processing application might >choose to construct a *new* tree that combines the two documents in some >way that makes sense *to the application*. For example, I've written >several instances of a program that takes a tree of subdocuments and >creates a single instance from them. Precisely. I'd like to be able to tell that application to create a single instance from the trees (in whatever shape they arrive) under certain circumstances. Having to guess whether an application will do so makes the tools far less useful. The use by reference/use by value distinction is important, but made painful in practice by the fact that XML has an infinitely richer vocabulary for use by reference than it does for use by value. Entities are extraordinarily limited when compared to the rich possibilities XPointers open up, and I hope that for many, though of course not all, uses entities (and notations as well) will be effectively obsoleted. Maybe Ted Nelson's right, and all this markup stuff gets in the way of proper transclusion. Simon St.Laurent Dynamic HTML: A Primer / XML: A Primer (January) / Cookies (February) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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