RE: XPDL (was Re: XML is broken)

I keep waiting for someone to ask the (perhaps stupid) question: "Is this
'problem' not something that RDF is designed or at least capable of dealing
with?" I have been conditioned to think of RDF as a kind of super-DTD but
obviously it is more general and more malleable.

Why not?

	...edN

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Elliotte Rusty
> Harold
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> Subject: Re: XPDL (was Re: XML is broken)
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>
> At 4:00 PM -0400 4/6/99, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>
> >That's pretty much what an XPDL file looks like, with hrefs
> pointing to all
> >sizable chunks of information.  It's not a manifest for a particular
> >document (it's referenced by the document, rather than it
> referencing the
> >document), but that functionality wouldn't be difficult to add for
> >particular use-cases.
> >
>
> I really wonder about this approach. It strikes me that the
> document should
> be the document, and all this differet information should
> come from outside
> of it. I really don't like the idea of embedding even a
> simple link to the
> XPDS stuff inside the document. I guess I'm prejudiced here
> based on my
> experience with style sheets where <?xml-stylesheet?> has
> caused me nothing
> but trouble. I hate having to edit my documents to apply a
> different style
> sheet, especially when I frequently want to switch between
> more than one
> style sheet for a single document.
>
> What about using a standard naming convention for attaching
> XPDL info to
> documents? Or HTTP headers? Possibly but not necessarily
> backed up by a
> processing instruction, where the processing instruction has
> the lowest
> priority?  My fundamental problem here is that I view this as
> a sort of
> layered approach, and I don't want the lower layers (XML) to have any
> knowledge of the upper layers (XLL, XSL, XPDL, etc.)
>
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