My trusted genius at large and implementer sent me this.
Is all this known to the group already? If so, sorry for the noise. Seems
like good standards to work with.
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Frode,
have a look at XPath, XPointer and XLink specifications at www.w3c.org to
convince yourself that Doug's idea of precise addressability of document
structure elements has already been nicely and precisely described from
the technical side. These are partly official recommendations and partly
w3c drafts, thus becoming more or less the actual future of content
publishing (if they are embraced to the extent HTML was).
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From http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath :
"XPath is the result of an effort to provide a common syntax and
semantics for functionality shared between XSL Transformations [XSLT] and
XPointer [XPointer]. The primary purpose of XPath is to address parts of
an XML [XML] document."
From http://www.w3.org/XML/Linking :
"XML Pointer Language (XPointer), the language to be used as a fragment
identifier for any URI-reference that locates a resource of Internet
media type text/xml or application/xml. XPointer, which is based on the
XML Path Language (XPath), supports addressing into the internal
structures of XML documents. It allows for traversals of a document tree
and choice of its internal parts based on various properties, such as
element types, attribute values, character content, and relative
position."
and " XML Linking Language (XLink), which allows elements to be inserted
into XML documents in order to create and describe links between
resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe the
simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more
sophisticated links."
This looks nice :)
Frode Hegland
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