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We are attempting to implement XML for one of our projects.
<BR>There is a need for our users to cross reference documents/data.
<BR>We were looking for a way to generate/format a universal ID.
<BR>FPI seems to solve this issue but:
<P>1- Why having yet another syntax ? I mean
<BR>-//myOrg//myDocType myDocName//en
<BR>could be:
<BR><Registered>No</Registered>
<BR><Org>myOrg</Org>
<BR><DocType>myDocType</DocType>
<BR><DocName>myDocName</DocName>
<BR><Lang>en</Lang>
<P>2- Where can I find more info about FPIs ? I spend a long time with
<BR>a web search engine but got only few interesting documents. Where can
I
<BR>find ISO 9070 related documents ? The ISO web site is not very user
friendly
<BR>for a first timer.
<P>3- Assuming that we keep this syntax, would it be valid to have something
<BR>like:
<BR>-//anOrg::anAuthor//aDocType aDocName::aVersionNumber//en
<P>or even worse:
<P>-//aCountry::anOrg::aDepartment::anAuthor//aDocType::aDocTypeVersionNumber
aDocName::aDocVersionNumber//en
<P>4- There is already some code out there to help parsing XMLs (I took
a Smalltalk
<BR>code and ported it to GemStone). Is there anything to parse FPIs ?
<BR>
<P>Regards
<BR>Thierry
<BR>
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