New version of the Table of contents document

[Peter Murray-Rust]

At 11:14 AM 2/2/00 +0100, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am building a web site which I'd like to be show case of XML
>technologies ;=) and I have read with great interest your Table of
>Content Pattern which can be used as a site map.
>
>I'd like to suggest to add an identifier to the topic element.
>
>I may have missed something, but I haven't found in either XLINK or the
>TOC Pattern a mechanism to address a resource without using a URI which
>is dependent of the physical layout of the site.
>
>As a web designer, I'd prefer (at least during the design phase...) to
>be able to use logical identifiers which are independent of the physical
>layout.

This may at least be a medium-scale approach and comes from an educational
approach.
In producing our material for VirtualXML I use XML entities as logical
identifiers and maintain a list of these (as a parameter entity) which can
be modified if any of the components are moved or renamed. This maintains
the link integrity (this is essentially a Bounded Object Set). When editing
material with Henry Thompson's XED I am prompted for the entities and with
a good naming scheme this can manage several hundred documents. 

Its merit is simplicity - it has to be accessible for newcomers to XML -
and we shall show course members how this works. Beyond that you probably
need specialist tools. I am sure hyTime can manage this!

	P.

>
>It could be done by adding a "name" attribute to the topic entity.
>
>Thanks
>
>Eric
>
>Didier PH Martin wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Since this afternoon I got some comments and myself, I checked again the
>> document. This lead to a new version which is posted at:
>> 
>> http://www.netfolder.com/xlink/TOC_pattern.htm
>> 
>> Up to now, we have an offer from Betty L. Harvey to host the XML-DEV
>> Editorial content. We'll wait a couple of days for an answer from OASIS.
>> Thanks for your generous offer Betty.
>> 
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