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.
--
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/
