What is a document?

[Don Park]

Don Park wrote:
> We clearly have a need to delve deeper into XML fragments related
> issues and I believe this is one of them.
> 
> In my view, sometimes it makes sense for a particular XML fragment
> to specify constraints on its containers.  By its nature, a fragment
> is likely to be missing some information (parameters if you will) that
> must be provided by the context.  We currently have no mechanism to do
> this but we will need it eventually.

Mark Birbeck replied:
>Not true - XML Fragment Interchange suggests a simple way to 
>do all that you say. I know that current thinking is that there's 'too 
>many specs to read', but this one's a teeny one.>

Mark, I think you misinterpreted the XML Fragment Interchange spec.
It suggest a way to provide context information about a fragment
of an existing document.  I was talking about some means to specify
and constrain where a standalone fragment (meaning that it is not a
complete document and is also not part of another document) may be
used and what context information is needed to use it.

Best,

Don Park    -   mailto:donpark at docuverse.com
Docuverse   -   http://www.docuverse.com


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