Redirecting XML files?

[Paul Prescod]

Dave Winer wrote:
> 
> What I'd like to say is that the webmaster should change the old file to
> "redirect" to the new file.
> 
> Something like this:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <redirect>http://www.fool.com/directory/file.xml</redirect>
> 
> ...
> 
> Is there any provision in the XML specs for redirecting in this manner or a
> similar one?

No, but I think that there should be. Existing mechanisms are
server-specific and thus not open. You could use an XLink with
"auto"/"replace" but the behavior of the XLink behavioral attributes are
massively underspecified and downright dangerous. I hope that they are
gone by the time the specification goes gold.

-- 
 Paul Prescod  - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
 http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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software in the age of the PC was reversed by a surprising combination
of forces: the social transformation initiated by the network, a
long-discarded European theory of political economy, and a small band
of programmers throughout the world mobilized by a single simple idea. 
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