RE: [docbook-apps] Using XIncludes to include infosets

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>]

At 5:30 PM +0100 2/2/04, Peter Ring wrote:
> Thanks for the clarifications (and sorry for top-posting this way)
>
> Yes, I hinted to the xpointer() scheme draft
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-xpointer/
>
> Is it possible to state something in general terms (suitable for docbook-aps
> rather than xml-dev) about what goes on? Pointing at document fragments is a
> fairly basic thing; are we -- eventually -- to expect conceptually coherent
> framework?

No, you should not expect such a thing, at least not from the W3C. 
The effort to develop such a syntax there failed, and is unlikely to 
be restarted anytime in the next few years. It's always possible a 
third party(s) will develop their own solution which could achieve de 
facto adoption.
--

  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  elharo@metalab.unc.edu
  Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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