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"Steven R. Newcomb" wrote: > > Some people would assert that this capability is no longer needed, and > that there's no longer any such thing as a document that's large > enough to require that its source be distributed among multiple > containers (entities). These people would assert that, given modern > computing resources, if a document is so large that it still needs to > be distributed among multiple containers, it is too damn big and > should be split up. Another way of looking at this: "Some People" have very strong assumptions about the scale of documents XML should work with. Now, we all know that scaling assumptions like that are dangerous. (Or if we don't, it's time to learn it!) A better approach is to recognize the document scaling is one of the issues that designers must deal with, external entities are one of the tools available to manage it, and that whenever you have lots of data to deal with you're going to have to be very careful. - Dave 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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