RE: Namespace or document gloss?

[Miles Sabin <MSabin@interx.com>]

Edd Dumbill wrote,
> I was thinking along similar lines, too.  As indeed Paul Grosso 
> observed earlier there are elements of this that fit with the 
> "XML Packaging" thing.
>
> Maybe all that's needed is a way (PI or attribute) for a 
> document instance to indicate a relevant resource bundle (or 
> whatever it gets called...) -- or maybe documents can 
> incorporate inline aspects from the resource vocabulary.

I don't think that's the right way to go. By hardwiring
references to associated resources into the document instance
itself you make it impossible to reuse an existing doc with a
different collection of resources without modifying the doc, or
using some XML processor specific override mechanism (eg. a SAX
entity resolver).

I'm thinking of something more along the lines of the
Decorator Pattern ... which is what I was groping towards here,

  http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200101/msg00025.html

> Either way, I'm enormously happy to see this activity underway.

Ditto.

Cheers,


Miles

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