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Rob Schoening wrote: | I am hoping that someone more knowledgeable than I am might be able to | answer this question: | | Is there a convenient way to identify a document by name? For transient | documents, it occurs to me that it might be very difficult to maintain an | audit trail of documents without using application and domain specific | tools. For e-commerce applications, this could be a serious shortcoming. | It seems to me that signing and encryption would necessarily be involved in | this scenario. | | As a document passes between systems a->b->c->d, more than likely systems b | and c will have little interest in the contents of the document. However, | it seems very likely that they would want to log a unique name for the | document (perhaps with its credentials) in order to cross reference it in | their system with some kind of annotation. This is important if only to | preserve the integrity of the contents of the document. Presumably, we | would like to know that the document at point A is the same document as the | one arriving at point d. But if the only way we can refer to documents is | through a URL, I do not see how this will be possible since the URL is a | reference, not a name. | | It seems to me that this will be absolutely critical for XML in EC | applications. Any suggestions on where to look? For CBL (see URL in my sig) I've used URNs to identify documents. In the scenario you describe, every party that may need to find the document by its URN has already received a copy of it, so the only resolution of the URN required is to look in the system's local registry of URNs and find the local identifier under which the document has been stored. YMMV. regards, Terry Allen Terry Allen Veo Systems, Inc. Business Language Designer 2440 W. El Camino Real tallen[at]sonic.net Mountain View, Calif., 94040 Common Business Library - available at http://www.veosystems.com/ 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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