Re: [xml-dev] Failed XML standards

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

Jesper Tverskov wrote:
> As we all know on this list, the XML article in Wikipedia contains the
> following:
> 
> "Some other specifications conceived as part of the "XML Core" have
> failed to find wide adoption, including XInclude, XLink, and
> XPointer."
> 
> But what does it mean?
> 
> Probably all text books about XML have a chapter dedicated to each of
> those standards.
> 
> Would you say that a new basic text book about XML should hardly
> mention XInclude, XLink, and XPointer at all, at least not in whole
> chapters, but maybe in some paragraph in a chapter about failed
> standards?

At this point, personally, I'd drop coverage of XLink and XPointer.  A 
paragraph seems reasonable.

XInclude does get use in back-end processing, so I'd leave it in, most 
likely - at least as a sidebar in the entity processing section.  It 
doesn't require a huge amount of space to explain in any case.

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Simon St.Laurent
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