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>From: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w...> >Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:50:12 -0500 >Subject: Call for Implementation: XML Fragment Interchange > >W3C is pleased to announce XML Fragment Interchange has become a W3C >Candidate Recommendation. > > XML Fragment Interchange > 12 February 2001 > http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-xml-fragment-20010212 > Editors: > Paul Grosso, Arbortext <pgrosso@a...> > Daniel Veillard, W3C <veillard@w...> > >This is a Public Call for Implementation of XML Fragment Interchange. >Please review the Exit criteria to determine whether > >a. you have an implementation which meets the criteria or >b. you wish to build an implementation and would like to know > important features and experience sought by the WG. > >1. Abstract > > The XML standard supports logical documents composed of > possibly several entities. It may be desirable to view or > edit one or more of the entities or parts of entities while > having no interest, need, or ability to view or edit the > entire document. The problem, then, is how to provide to a > recipient of such a fragment the appropriate information > about the context that fragment had in the larger document > that is not available to the recipient. The XML Fragment WG > is chartered with defining a way to send fragments of an XML > document--regardless of whether the fragments are > predetermined entities or not--without having to send all > of the containing document up to the part in question. This > document defines Version 1.0 of the [eventual] W3C > Recommendation that addresses this issue. > >2. Request for publication and outstanding issues > >The request for publication is recorded: > > Request for PR for XML Fragment Interchange > From: Paul Grosso (pgrosso@a...) > Date: Mon, Jan 22 2001 > (resend from Sep 1999) > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2001JanMar/0030.html > >As the request to advance to Proposed Recommendation was filed before >the Candidate Recommendation matured, and the request is being >considered now, the director considered this request for Candidate >Recommendation consideration, with the chair's agreement. > >No substantive issues were raised during the last call review of XML >Fragment Interchange. > >3. Exit criteria > >The director plans to use the following criteria to advance XML Fragment >Interchange to Proposed Recommendation. > >a. Positive feedback from the XForms Working Group regarding > their efforts to build on XML Fragments in developing their > specification. >b. Demonstration of interoperability between multiple clients > and multiple servers successfully interchanging fragments > as described in the scenarios in section 3. Requirements > of XML Fragment Interchange Requirements Version 1.0 > http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-XML-FRAG-REQ-19981123 . >c. Positive feedback from the XML Query Working Group regarding > their efforts to build on XML Fragments in developing their > specification. >d. From the XML Protocol Working Group, either positive feedback > regarding their efforts to build on XML Fragments in developing their > specification, or indication that XML Fragments are not > relevant to their specification. >e. In the case that XML Packaging mechanisms are developed > that involve assembling parts of XML documents, positive > feedback from developers of such mechanisms that this > XML Fragment specification is a useful building block >f. demonstration of a client that uses XML Fragment context > information with stylesheets (e.g. CSS, XSL) to display > fragments with, for example, the appropriate heading layout > and section numbers. >g. Testing materials -- for example, materials from interoperability > scenarios above -- should be assembled for convenient access > by developers. Positive feedback from developers regarding > the availability and usefulness of these materials should be > collected. >h. While interaction with XML Schemas is beyond the scope > of this specification, experience with the interaction > between XML Fragments and XML Schemas, as input to future > work, should be collected. An XML Schema for checking the syntax > of fragment contexts and such should also be prototyped. > >4. Description of what Candidate Recommendation status means > >The W3C Process Document describes the Candidate Recommendation status >of a specification in Section 5.2: >http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process-20010208/tr.html#Recs > >A Candidate Recommendation is believed to meet the relevant >requirements of the Working Group's charter and any >accompanying requirements documents, and has been published >in order to gather implementation experience and feedback. >Advancement of a technical report to Candidate Recommendation >is an explicit call for implementation experience to those >outside of the related Working Groups or the W3C itself. > >5. Status of This Document > > This specification is being put forth as a Candidate Recommendation > by the XML Core Working Group. This document is a revision of the > Working Draft dated 1999 June 30 which had incorporated > suggestions received during last call review, comments, and further > deliberations of the W3C XML Fragment Working Group. For background > on this work, please see the XML Activity Statement. The Working > Group believes this specification to be stable and invites > implementation feedback during this period. > > The duration of Candidate Recommendation is expected to last > approximately three months (ending 30 April 2001). All > persons are encouraged to review and implement this specification > and return comments to the publicly archived mailing list > www-xml-fragment-comments@w.... > > Should this specification prove impossible to implement, the Working > Group will return the document to Working Draft status and make > necessary changes. Otherwise, the Working Group anticipates asking > the W3C Director to advance this document to Proposed Recommendation. > > This is still a draft document and may be updated, replaced, or > obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite > a W3C Candidate Recommendation as other than "work in progress." A > list of current W3C working drafts can be found at > http://www.w3.org/TR. > > >Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director; >Janet Daly, Head of Communications > >-- > >World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) > >Janet Daly, Head of Communications >MIT/LCS NE43-363 >200 Technology Square >Cambridge, MA 02139 >USA > >voice: +1.617.253.5884 >fax: +1.617.258.5999 >http://www.w3.org/ >janet@w... > > >
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