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The very interesting DeRose/Maden paper on transclusion at http://oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/transclu.html is an excellent discussion of transclusion for *quotation*, but it does not address transclusion for *reuse* at all. (This is not a complaint, just a comment.) To explain the distinction, consider transcluding a copyright license from some other document, such as the GPL. If you want to *quote* the GPL as it applies, say, to the gcc compiler, then you are transcluding it for *quotation*. If, OTOH, you want to apply the GPL to your own document, you are transcluding it for *reuse*. In that case, the GPL is not being quoted in your document, but rather replicated into the appropriate slot of your document --- the (virtual) copyright page. It should appear in the font & style appropriate to a copyright page, not to that appropriate to a (block) quotation. In either case, the stylesheet of the referring document is the controlling element. I believe that T.H. Nelson's original concern was with transclusion for reuse. Traditionally, authors have been faced with a dilemma: express a thought in your own words, or quote someone else's wording. Transclusion for reuse allows a third possibility: use someone else's wording to express your thought, in such a way that the curious can determine that someone else chose the wording (and with the possibility of compensating the original author). Transclusion for reuse is a way of making other people your co-authors, with credit and (possible) compensation, but without their specific consent. (Publishing one's document in transclusible form would constitute a general consent.) Comments? -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) 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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