[Please note that it is 2:50AM, and I haven't got a clue what I'm typing, so this may not be a coherent/cohesive arguement. I'll take another look in the...
Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Jan 1, 2001 8:08 am
25970
... Ugh, I missed most of the discussion about this (mail problems). Summary: looks good, looks very good, [...] That is, apart from some quite stunning XHTML...
Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Jan 1, 2001 8:10 am
25971
The idea, most fully worked out by Jonathan Borden, of overloading the HTML <link> element to serve as related-resource xlinks, is cool, but I see two problems...
Tim Bray
tbray@...
Jan 1, 2001 8:16 am
25972
... I not sure if it proves an 'owns' relation, but Dan Connolly once suggested the following procedure for verifying 'hasWriteAccessTo': the suspicious party...
Dan Brickley
Daniel.Brickley@...
Jan 1, 2001 9:23 am
25973
... You're kidding, right? ... Just how exactly does this query take place? A distributed system cannot function without some sort of transport protocol. I'd...
Jason Diamond
jason@...
Jan 1, 2001 9:33 am
25974
Hi. ... This is similar to the [base URI] property in the Infoset. I think it's an excellent idea. Couldn't the source also be used to accomplish #2, though? ...
Jason Diamond
jason@...
Jan 1, 2001 9:33 am
25975
... I don't know that this is as important a goal as making sure that the names used are appropriate. ... I'm guessing this also comes from your desire to...
Uche Ogbuji
uche.ogbuji@...
Jan 1, 2001 9:33 am
25976
Hi. ... But an email address is like a black hole. You can send all the messages you want to it but you're not guaranteed a reply. An http URI, on the other ...
Jason Diamond
jason@...
Jan 1, 2001 9:33 am
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... That doesn't matter: we aren't dereferencing it, or asking it to perform a certian processing function. We're just using it as a unique name for a persons...
... Sorry! Should be <abbr title="generic Top Level Domain">gTLD</abbr> It means a .com or .org or a .net Like http://uwimp.com/ or http://infomesh.net/ I like...
Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Jan 1, 2001 9:33 am
25980
... Thanks for the link although I don't think it says what you probably think it says. The "Name Myth" that TBL is referring to is the misconception that ...
Jason Diamond
jason@...
Jan 1, 2001 10:28 am
25981
... Right on. That can't be said enough these days. ... Funny you see it that way; probably too many simplistic 'a Dog is a kind of Mammal' examples floating...
Dan Brickley
Daniel.Brickley@...
Jan 1, 2001 11:10 am
25982
It would be worthwhile taking a little time to consider the possible security impact of encouraging XML processing software to dereference Namespace URIs as a...
John Wilson
tug@...
Jan 1, 2001 11:37 am
25983
... Any HTTP GET facility exposed to the outside world can be abused. Namespace URIs are no different. The issues you raise are equally applicable to XML-RPC,...
Sean McGrath
sean@...
Jan 1, 2001 12:10 pm
25984
... Good attempt, but once again the XHTML Modularization side is suspect:- ... You need to specify other namespaces with QNames files according to the ...
Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Jan 1, 2001 2:18 pm
25985
I thought I'd meld Jonathan and Tim's proposals together somewhat, and I came up with:- XNCL - http://infomesh.net/xncl/ I'm not great with names, so I just...
Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Jan 1, 2001 3:07 pm
25986
... I'm just jumping in here to point out that Uche is perhaps the most prolific and thorough implementor of standards based software since James Clark. He...
Sean McGrath
sean@...
Jan 1, 2001 3:46 pm
25987
Starting out the New Year with duelling namespace resource specs? And one of them in full W3C dress with German examples. Sign of the new year? Anyways, my...
Uche Ogbuji
uche.ogbuji@...
Jan 1, 2001 3:56 pm
25988
I might be missing something, but as far as I can see all three [1] of the current proposals share the following characteristic: they all tie a namespace...
Miles Sabin
MSabin@...
Jan 1, 2001 4:20 pm
25989
... Thanks for mentioning this, which is a very important issue for all of us writing network software to keep in mind. However, I hardly think there is...
Uche Ogbuji
uche.ogbuji@...
Jan 1, 2001 4:25 pm
25990
I finally got some spare tuits over the holidays to hack together an offline processor for XPathScript. The only difference between this version and the AxKit...
Matt Sergeant
matt@...
Jan 1, 2001 4:33 pm
25991
... Good point. I see this as an implementation issue once one of the Namespace Catalogue specs gets adopted. I would suggest good old processing...
Uche Ogbuji
uche.ogbuji@...
Jan 1, 2001 4:55 pm
25992
... I would have except that "type" is already defined in HTML as such and I am trying to do minimal damage to what already exists. ... I don't think so....
Jonathan Borden
jborden@...
Jan 1, 2001 5:11 pm
25993
Hello. ... I don't understand what you mean. It's just as easy for me to make assertions about mailto:jason@... as it is about ...
Jason Diamond
jason@...
Jan 1, 2001 5:22 pm
25994
Uche Ogbuji wrote, ... Where would this fragement live tho'? Not in the resource at the end of the namespace URI, for the reasons already given; and not in the...
Miles Sabin
MSabin@...
Jan 1, 2001 5:42 pm
25995
... I agree. However, as none of the proposals define methods for implementations, and no doubt will not at any time do so, I believe that the development of...
Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Jan 1, 2001 5:43 pm
25996
I have written up a brief proposal for an XML Catalog specification based on our discussions. Note, the proposal is in the XML Catalog format and is located...
Jonathan Borden
jborden@...
Jan 1, 2001 6:04 pm
25997
So can you summarize the differnces between the OASIS catalog format that is already supported with a free Java Class and what you are proposing? ..dan...
Dan Vint
dvint@...
Jan 1, 2001 6:29 pm
25998
Hi All, I need to display XML Documents fetched from an Oracle database in IE5 / Netscape. These XML Documents also contain MathML Markup. I have been able to...
