Re: Namespaces, Architectural Forms, and Sub-Documents

Peter Murray-Rust (peter@ursus.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 06 Feb 1998 08:28:31


At 12:33 04/02/98 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>
>Not at all -- you just need a single element type to hold references
>to other XML documents. You could even (though this is disgusting)
>use
>
> <img src="equation1.xml">
>

I hope that the "disgusting" refers to the use of 'img' and 'src' and the
implied semantics rather than the mechanism :-). I am an advocate of the
*mechanism* (e.g
http://www.vsms.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms/talks/chemwebvei/020.html) where I
use XML-LINK explicitly to combine chemistry, maths and text. This has the
advantage that it avoids namespace problems. It also allows me to process
foreign files if certain assumptions are made.

P.
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