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At 12:55 PM -0500 3/3/02, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >The crux of the issue seems to rest on whether XInclude's role as "a >generic mechanism for merging XML documents (as represented by their >information sets) for use by applications that need such a facility" >affects "logical equivalence". > I think it most clearly does affect logical equivalence, especially after the latest XInclude working draft. Now that fallback elements can stand in for missing resources, and provide very different content, the actual content of a post-include document may vary depending on whether somebody's dropped a backhoe through various T-1 lines connecting different parts of the Internet, and which parts of the Internet are relatively disconnected at which times. In such a world, XInclude resolution makes no sense as part of canonicalization. A document that includes a list of links and fallback content is simply not logically the same as a document in which all the links have been replaced by their remote resources. It's the difference between a phone book and all the people listed in the phonebook. They are related, but they are not the same thing. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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