FYI: Call for Implementation: XML Fragment Interchange

[Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>]

>From: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:50:12 -0500
>Subject: Call for Implementation: XML Fragment Interchange
>
>W3C is pleased to announce XML Fragment Interchange has become a W3C
>Candidate Recommendation.
>
>  XML Fragment Interchange
>  12 February 2001
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-xml-fragment-20010212
>  Editors: 
>     Paul Grosso, Arbortext <pgrosso@arbortext.com> 
>     Daniel Veillard, W3C <veillard@w3.org> 
>
>This is a Public Call for Implementation of XML Fragment Interchange.
>Please review the Exit criteria to determine whether 
>
>a. you have an implementation which meets the criteria or 
>b. you wish to build an implementation and would like to know 
>   important features and experience sought by the WG.
>
>1. Abstract
>
>        The XML standard supports logical documents composed of 
>        possibly several entities. It may be desirable to view or 
>        edit one or more of the entities or parts of entities while 
>        having no interest, need, or ability to view or edit the 
>        entire document. The problem, then, is how to provide to a 
>        recipient of such a fragment the appropriate information 
>        about the context that fragment had in the larger document 
>        that is not available to the recipient. The XML Fragment WG 
>        is chartered with defining a way to send fragments of an XML 
>        document--regardless of whether the fragments are 
>        predetermined entities or not--without having to send all 
>        of the containing document up to the part in question. This 
>        document defines Version 1.0 of the [eventual] W3C 
>        Recommendation that addresses this issue. 
>
>2. Request for publication and outstanding issues
>
>The request for publication is recorded:
>
>  Request for PR for XML Fragment Interchange
>  From: Paul Grosso (pgrosso@arbortext.com)
>  Date: Mon, Jan 22 2001
>        (resend from Sep 1999) 
>  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2001JanMar/0030.html
>
>As the request to advance to Proposed Recommendation was filed before
>the Candidate Recommendation matured, and the request is being
>considered now, the director considered this request for Candidate
>Recommendation consideration, with the chair's agreement.
>
>No substantive issues were raised during the last call review of XML
>Fragment Interchange.
>
>3. Exit criteria
>
>The director plans to use the following criteria to advance XML Fragment
>Interchange to Proposed Recommendation.
>
>a. Positive feedback from the XForms Working Group regarding
>   their efforts to build on XML Fragments in developing their
>   specification.
>b. Demonstration of interoperability between multiple clients
>   and multiple servers successfully interchanging fragments
>   as described in the scenarios in section 3. Requirements
>   of XML Fragment Interchange Requirements Version 1.0
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-XML-FRAG-REQ-19981123 .
>c. Positive feedback from the XML Query Working Group regarding
>   their efforts to build on XML Fragments in developing their
>   specification.
>d. From the XML Protocol Working Group, either positive feedback
>   regarding their efforts to build on XML Fragments in developing their
>   specification, or indication that XML Fragments are not
>   relevant to their specification.
>e. In the case that XML Packaging mechanisms are developed
>   that involve assembling parts of XML documents, positive
>   feedback from developers of such mechanisms that this
>   XML Fragment specification is a useful building block
>f. demonstration of a client that uses XML Fragment context
>   information with stylesheets (e.g. CSS, XSL) to display
>   fragments with, for example, the appropriate heading layout
>   and section numbers.
>g. Testing materials -- for example, materials from interoperability
>   scenarios above -- should be assembled for convenient access
>   by developers. Positive feedback from developers regarding
>   the availability and usefulness of these materials should be
>   collected.
>h. While interaction with XML Schemas is beyond the scope
>    of this specification, experience with the interaction
>    between XML Fragments and XML Schemas, as input to future
>    work, should be collected. An XML Schema for checking the syntax
>    of fragment contexts and such should also be prototyped.
>
>4. Description of what Candidate Recommendation status means
>
>The W3C Process Document describes the Candidate Recommendation status
>of a specification in Section 5.2:
>http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process-20010208/tr.html#Recs
>
>A Candidate Recommendation is believed to meet the relevant 
>requirements of the Working Group's charter and any 
>accompanying requirements documents, and has been published 
>in order to gather implementation experience and feedback. 
>Advancement of a technical report to Candidate Recommendation 
>is an explicit call for implementation experience to those
>outside of the related Working Groups or the W3C itself. 
>
>5. Status of This Document
>
>   This specification is being put forth as a Candidate Recommendation
>   by the XML Core Working Group. This document is a revision of the
>   Working Draft dated 1999 June 30 which had incorporated
>   suggestions received during last call review, comments, and further
>   deliberations of the W3C XML Fragment Working Group. For background
>   on this work, please see the XML Activity Statement. The Working
>   Group believes this specification to be stable and invites
>   implementation feedback during this period.
>
>   The duration of Candidate Recommendation is expected to last
>   approximately three months (ending 30 April 2001). All
>   persons are encouraged to review and implement this specification 
>   and return comments to the publicly archived mailing list
>   www-xml-fragment-comments@w3.org.
>
>   Should this specification prove impossible to implement, the Working
>   Group will return the document to Working Draft status and make
>   necessary changes. Otherwise, the Working Group anticipates asking
>   the W3C Director to advance this document to Proposed Recommendation.
>
>   This is still a draft document and may be updated, replaced, or
>   obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite
>   a W3C Candidate Recommendation as other than "work in progress." A
>   list of current W3C working drafts can be found at
>   http://www.w3.org/TR.
>
>
>Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director;
>Janet Daly, Head of Communications
>
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