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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xml-dev@x... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@x...]On Behalf Of > Paul Grosso > Sent: 18 April 2000 16:17 > To: xml-dev > Subject: Re: External Resources: Catalogs, XInclude, XBase > [ comments on entity management catalogs ] > It would be perfectly reasonable for a processor that supports > catalog use to treat the URI given on an xinclude as it would > any external identifier and pass it through the catalog processing. I would that would be useful, it wasn't clear from my reading of the spec whether this was to be the expected (or allowed) behaviour. > Perhaps the XInclude spec could make it clearer that the value > of its href attribute is similar to a system identifier in the > sense of that associated with the SystemLiteral of production [73] > in the XML spec so that catalog processing (if any) would occur on > it too. I think this would be a useful clarification which will highlight that xinclude URIs are to be treated in the same manner as other external identifiers. > I'm not sure what similar functionality you mean. A packaging > mechanism (i.e., some way to be able to refer to--and perhaps > facilitate transmission of--a related set of files) would sure > be nice. It's on the "future" list of the XML Activity, but at > the present, there aren't enough cycles to attack the problem. I meant that a packaging mechanism might need to include 'local (entity management) catalog' to ensure that references in PackagedDocA to B can be dereferenced to actually point to PackagedDocB. This would allow documents to be packaged without any need to transform their contents. I'd expect that logically a package would contain a manifest (whats in the package), and a catalog (linking contents together). However these might physically be the same file. A package processor would expect at least a manifest in a package. Just musing aloud. Cheers, L. -- Leigh Dodds, Systems Architect | "Pluralitas non est ponenda http://weblogs.userland.com/eclectic | sine necessitates" http://www.xml.com/pub/xmldeviant | -- William of Ockham *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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