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Re: Xlink Isn't Dead

• From: James Fuller <jim.fuller@r...>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:17:20 +0200

> * 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

nice list.

wondering which of these could be removed (and still hit 80% functionality)

--J

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