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

[Michael Sokolov <msokolov@safaribooksonline.com>]

On 12/13/13 3:02 AM, davep wrote:
> 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?
Yes, and I was only half joking.  We often gin up complexity where a 
simple solution already exists, and this conversation has that smell to 
me, but it's too early to judge -- I'll step back and see where it goes.

-Mike