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At 09:29 AM 12/31/00 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >I think Tim Bray [1] pointed the way forward: > >I think that if you got a group of qualified people, mostly > >computer programmers, together, you could cook, in a few > >weeks, cook up a nice little markup vocabulary containing > >[XHTML+XLink catalogues] Early in 2001 we will be releasing a pervasive computing application server platform and I am thinking about what we should put on the end of the namespace URIs for the various vocabs involved. I am up for implementing whatever little XHTML/XLINK thingy we can agree upon here in this product. +1 for this group to do something on this v. important topic. Sean >There seems to be a lot (for a holiday weekend, and especially for anything >involving namespaces) of enthusiasm: > >Nice. A human *and* machine readable catalogue as a > >mixture of XHTML, XLink, etc. What are we waiting for? > > >I'm glad of Tim's recent clarifications. They help me marshal my own > >thoughts and prepare to move on, invoking a modified form of the Treaty of > >Wulai. > > >Blimey, this is a good idea... > > >Both of these work for me. > > >Sounds like a good plan; and not so far what we've already seen deployed > >for RSS and Dublin Core. > >To me, these comments, which come from people with a wide variety of >viewpoints in this discussion, suggest that Tim's basically got it right. >Rick Jelliffe has some important concerns about differing viewpoints [2] >which I think need to be considered, but I'm think interoperability with >those approaches is definitely possible. > >We've had a number of proposals ([1] [3] [4] [5]) which I think provide a >solid starting point, despite differences in details. I'd like to think we >can agree on a core set of needs, basically a catalog list of resource >locations and type identifiers in some kind of context, and reach some kind >of useful agreement quickly. > >I'm not sure XML-Dev's authority will be enough to make this work in the >world, but I'd like to think that we can at least point a way forward. And >maybe we can make a New Year's resolution to not be in the same discussion >this time next year. > > >[1] - http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200012/msg00720.html >[2] - http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200012/msg00741.html >[3] - http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200012/msg00725.html >[4] - http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200012/msg00728.html >[5] - http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200012/msg00729.html (summary) >Simon St.Laurent >XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. >XHTML: Migrating Toward XML >http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books Sean McGrath CTO Propylon Enabling Universal Mobility http://www.propylon.com
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