Re: [xml-dev] XML vocabulary for expressing constraints?

[davep <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On 13/12/13 03:53, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> On 12/12/13 10:32 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 11:58 -0500, Steve Newcomb wrote:
> >
> > > In my view, what SGML never had, and XML still doesn't have, is a
> > > mechanism for disclosing the semantic intent of a document address.
> > > When I mention an address, what am I talking about?  In the absence of a
> > > characterization of intent, it's extremely ambiguous.
> > +1
> >
> > I don't believe that "HTTP Range" cuts it, as putting # on the end of a
> > URI is not out-of-band, and still only gives two options (the resource
> > itself or the resource as a surrogate).
> >
> > At one time I hoped topic maps would give us more of this.
> >
> > Liam
> HTML has it though: it's the content of the A tag.
>
> <A href="address">what you can expect to find at the address</A>
>
> -Mike
I have a sneaking suspicion that Steve didn't equate such a simple
interpretation with it Mike?

"The semantic intent of a document address"?
IMHO that's just a tease.

Come on Mr Newcombe,






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