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Didier PH Martin wrote: > Conclusion: > ----------- > According to the actual state of the art, only Hypothesis 1 > will fly. If we > think of rendition, we have to think of document. If we think about > document, then a biztalk message is also a document. The content (your > message) is only a fragment. In the XML world there is no > actual standard > notions of > a) envelope > b) multiple document embedding for transport (each embedded > fragment being a > separate entity interpreted by different agents) I think this is always the case; according to XML 1.0, a document cannot be contained within another document. (Of course with SML you can have as many documents/sentences/fragments as you like in one stream, which I'm sure will confuse those new to XML, but still, there you have it.) However, I think that conceptually I prefer your thinking in some of your previous messages. Shouldn't the means by which a 'document' arrived at your server be almost irrelevant? The fact that it was wrapped in BizTalk or SOAP, or was retrieved through WebDAV or DASL or was emailed with MIME, or picked up by a resource statement in RDF makes no difference to the content. I would suggest that the stylesheet instruction to which you refer should be for the enclosed 'document', which will change - chrysalis-like - from a fragment into a mature document, able to hold its own in the world and strike out independently. (Its difficult to read DIdier without wanting to try a few metaphors - just to see how it feels.) :-) It's even conceivable as these systems mature, that if one route/protocol for delivery was unavailable another would be used, so you definitely don't want to get too involved in the transport. Anyway, I think these issues are for the application level, not the XML parser level. Regards, Mark PS My spell checker wants to change BizTalk to bestial. It's not been wrong before, so watch out. 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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