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Liam Quin wrote: > I've been thinking for a while about this proposal. > The main benefits you get are > (1) your XML documents are simpler and smaller > (2) it's easier to remember the xin file than a mass of URIs > (3) you dereference xin files and cache them -- they are not names -- > so whether there is a trailing slash or not, whether there's a # > at the end, whether characters are escaped or not, makes no > difference, an architectural improvement. > > The main downside is that it [expletive deleted], but maybe it [expletive deleted] less than > the status quo (and in any case [expletive deleted] isn't always bad...) Far less than a bad copy/paste n times? > > A secondary downside is that when you rely on something not > ubiquitous, you risk losing some interoperability. > > My question is, is anyone interested and does it sound useful? Yes, yes. Are there lessons to be learned from a catalog file as is suggested elsewhere in this thread? A number of external 'xin' files would be far easier to remember. It would impact quite a few specs though, and create a bit of W3C flack! regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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