This is wonderful! From time to time I have suggested such an engine on
XML-DEV and it is great to see someone as well advanced as this. Do you
plan to make this available? If not, are you able to publish the semantics?
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This was very helpful. From your replies, you appear to attach some meaning
to all except the last (which I think we would all agree was a semantic
error). I'd be very interested to know if other Xlink specialists
(including the authors?) take the same view as you.
>If the XLink processing facilities are separated from the application,
>It is possible to throw some errors from the "XLink processor".
I agree with this strategy. I have been campaigning for an XLink processor :-)
>
>> This is an important occasion that there is a clear requirement for
>> applications to apply semantics to parts of one of the specs. We already
>> have to write an attribute processor and I'm interested in knowing how much
>> additional processing any conforming Xlink software is going to have to do.
>
>FYI, I will give a speach and demonstration about my XLink engine in
>the HyTime at work session of SGML/XML Europe '98.
I have recently met a good fairy which means that I shall be at XML98 for
part of the time (probably Tuesday - Thursday). It would be nice to meet.
P.
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Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic
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