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On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau@yahoo.de> wrote:
See below...
It's probably the use of "documents" above which prevented me from thinking of yours and Michael's documents in the same way. As I understand Michael's quote, it's not just a convenient view ver existing documents, but fundamentally redesigning what "XML document" means, at least for this limited scenario. Rather than documents I would think of the component bits as more like general entities or XInclude fragments. In my opinion what Michael is proposing is in effect redesigning the fundamental behavior of an XML parser whereas what your super-documents idea is doing is layering some additional, useful capability on top of XML parsers as they already exist.
When I mentioned that I wanted to spend the weekend thinking of Michael's idea, it was primarily with MicroXML in mind. The charter of the MicroXML group allows us to consider the complete redesign of the XML parser, never mind just tinkering with XPath semantics. Mind you, that doesn't mean I'd suggest allowing the MicroXML parser to automatically trigger requests of Web resources. That would be a backward step after we've closed some important security holes by eliminating entities and DTDs. Rather it might be a matter of having some sort of hook/callback mechanism based on node patterns. Someone else could then layer on that, at their own risk, a handler that traverses Web resources? All unformed thoughts, for the moment.
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