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Re: ANN: xpath1() scheme for XPointer

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• Subject: Re: ANN: xpath1() scheme for XPointer
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:07:40 +1100
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From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>


> (Somewhat paradoxically, I'm hoping that xpath1() will encourage the 
> creation of more XInclude implementations, in order that these issues are 
> encountered more frequently and best practices can start to evolve.)

I've never quite cottened on to why XIncludes are useful.  Is it because
the longevity of ID/IDREF means that "document scope" has not gone
away, yet because entities are not first-class constructs in XML the current
generation of tools promotes an all-element solution (and bugger the
structure)?

Another aspect, I suppose, is that specs like WXS which have an include 
element want to make use of the include statement as a part of modularization:
instead of arbitrary inclusions, perhaps people want more domain-specific
modularization.  

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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