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----- Original Message ----- From: W. Eliot Kimber <eliot@i...> To: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@e...> Cc: <xml-dev@i...> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 10:28 AM Subject: Re: External Entities A Field Guide (was RE: Feeler for SML (SimpleMarkup Language)) > This is my statement and I stand by it. In my experience the at-scale > use of external parsed entities for re-use has only ever led to pain. OK, so can I ask the list's opinion on what one CAN do to facilitate the re-use of XML components produced by different authors or processes? This is one thing that XML is *supposed* to do well, if you believe various bits of hype. This is a topic that has confused me for years. I've worked on this problem from two directions, neither terribly successful. First from the starting assumption that the external parsed entity mechanism is too tricky and fragile to support re-use, so we re-worked an editing/publishing product to support the non-SGML/XML capabilities of underlying document management systems here. That was only partially successful, largely because it was non-standard and difficult to translate to the diverse capabilities of the various DMS systems. The other was to try to more smoothly glue the XML external entity mechanism onto the underlying repositories. That was frustrating and only partially successful for the reasons brought out in these threads. So is this something that simply has to be done by "whatever means necessary" on the server/database side? Can databases or servers that understand the XML entity resolution mechanism but also have version control help? Will XLink save the day someday? Does the XML spec have to change (a la Don's comments about facilitating fragment re-use in SML) to make this happen, should the support go into some future DOM API, or what? TIA ... 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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