Transmission of multiple documents

Peter Murray-Rust (Peter@ursus.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:33:35 GMT

In message <199703101540.HAA19301@bolt.sonic.net> Terry Allen writes:
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> My question is perhaps off-topic here on xml-dev, and I know everyone

I think this is on-topic and is a more general problem. Please excuse
me if I'm wrong :-)

> is busy preparing for WWW6, but I ask you all to reflect on it as
> an issue that needs resolution later on: What do I do to associate
> a style sheet with a read-only document, e.g., one that resides on
> some other server than my own, or that has been digitally signed?
> (And assume that this document has a doctype declaration already.)

I interpret this to be a specific case of a more general problem - how
do we associate multiple documents delivered over the WWW? (Among the
documents are DTDs, entities of many sorts, transcluded documents,
style sheets, and methods (e.g. Java classes). I am no expert here,
but at least one person has suggested JAR files. Is this a generic solution
for this type of problem (I agree it's probably only one of several
solutions?)

P.

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