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Michael Kay stated a list of requirements. I've not seen them elaborated. >What's needed is a mechanism for declaring and maintaining non-hierarchic >relationships between objects (elements) that allows: >* freedom of choice in the syntactic form of the identifier >* freedom of choice in the naming of identifiers >* independence of document boundaries >* indirection between identifiers of objects and the addresses of the >documents containing them >* indirection between identifiers of objects and their XML representations >* bi-directional (inverse) relationships >* flexibility in the management of referential integrity >* versioning >etc. You may want to start with the 'etc.' and work your way back up the list. It is my experience that most of what is needed can be done with a relational database and an implementation of one way links, but that is implementation, not requirements and such an implementation is system-dependent regardless of the scale of the solution. len -----Original Message----- From: Dave Pawson [mailto:davep@d...] Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 12:15 PM To: Len Bullard Cc: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: Xlink Isn't Dead Len Bullard wrote: > This thread is going to the same places it has always gone. The Petri dish > is becoming stale. Which is curious on this list. I feel sure that there is sufficient exposure and experience here to define a set of requirements for xlink and implement them, as was the case with sax. The need is there (IMHO); I can't recall that being in doubt? I guess all that is missing is a David Megginson to take the lead and put forward the (a?) proposal. Bob, Jirka, Ben, someone else? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php
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