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On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:43 PM, David Lee <dlee@calldei.com> wrote:
In this post you actually do a decent job of asking a question and providing its own answer. You start by asking why XML URI access mechanisms do not define the mechanism of retrieval. You then go on to list some of the many pitfalls involved in retrieval. These pitfalls are of course well known, and are the reason why XML specs leave all that to the relevant RFCs, and why they absolutely should do so.
A couple of points, though:
Yes. From the XSLT 1.0 spec, 12.1: Two documents are treated as the same document if they are identified by the same URI. The URI used for the comparison is the absolute URI into which any relative URI was resolved and does not include any fragment identifier. One root node is treated as the same node as another root node if the two nodes are from the same document. Thus, the following expression will always be true:
generate-id(document("foo.xml"))=generate-id(document("foo.xml"))
We don't. That would be taking a backward step from the Web to Project Xanadu. Ted Nelson is a genius, but there are good, non-genius reasons why the Web succeeded where Xanadu never could. You give those reasons in your very next para:
Yes. This was the Magna Carta of the history of the Web, courtesy Tim Berners-Lee. Uche Ogbuji http://uche.ogbuji.net Founding Partner, Zepheira http://zepheira.com http://wearekin.org http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/author/uogbuji/ http://copia.ogbuji.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/ucheogbuji http://twitter.com/uogbuji
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