RE: [xml-dev] Failed XML standards

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

> 
> 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?

In the case of XLink and XPointer, yes: I'd say these are historical
curiosities, and the only interest in them is in understanding why they
failed.

XInclude I think has some merit: even if it's not widely used, it's viable
to use it, and there are situations where I would recommend using it in
preference to external entity references. But plain URIs held in
user-defined attributes are probably just as effective for many
applications.

Regards,

Michael Kay
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