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Hi Paul, everyone, On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Paul Prescod wrote: [ ... ] > The real reason groves were invented was > to answer the question: > > * what is the result of hyperlinking into an arbitrary media type? [ ... ] > You cannot build a sophisticated hypertext system without answering that > question. This will become apparent after XLink, XPointer and RDF are > implemented. We'll start to see many divergences of behavior when links > are made into (e.g.) PDF, MPEGs, JPEGs and so forth. Over time we will > need to develop a framework for describing the correct results of links > in a generic way. Then we will reinvent groves. I am just learning about groves now and am interested in your claim. There's a note in the Property Set Requirements annex of the HyTime specification: NOTE 440 Property sets are designed to support the HyTime and DSSSL processing and representation of notation-specific data by providing the information needed by those processes. They are not intended as a general model for making notation-specific data available for arbitrary processing. But you're saying that we should be able to use groves for other arbitrarily structured data? I guess I can see that in a way, but I would like to see example groves of things like relational databases? Has anyone attempted to define a subset of ESIS for XML yet? I'm very interested in seeing something like that, along with a corresponding grove plan for XPath's (and therefore XSLT and XPointer/XLink's) data model. Having just struggled through the abomination that is the DOM Level 1 in order to attempt to implement XPath, I can definitely see a need for XML processing using efficient, tailored data models produced for each kind of processing, and maybe groves are it. If there's nothing like this yet I would like to collaborate with any other interested parties in defining an XML property set and XPath grove plan, and perhaps also a Java implementation for grove manipulation. . . . Sean. 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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