Michael Kay stated a list of requirements. I've not seen them elaborated.
>What's needed is a mechanism for declaring and maintaining non-hierarchic
>relationships between objects (elements) that allows:
>* freedom of choice in the syntactic form of the identifier
>* freedom of choice in the naming of identifiers
>* independence of document boundaries
>* indirection between identifiers of objects and the addresses of the
>documents containing them
>* indirection between identifiers of objects and their XML representations
>* bi-directional (inverse) relationships
>* flexibility in the management of referential integrity
>* versioning
>etc.
You may want to start with the 'etc.' and work your way back up the list.
It is my experience that most of what is needed can be done with a
relational database and an implementation of one way links, but that is
implementation, not requirements and such an implementation is
system-dependent regardless of the scale of the solution.
len
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Pawson [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 12:15 PM
To: Len Bullard
Cc:
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Xlink Isn't Dead
Len Bullard wrote:
> This thread is going to the same places it has always gone. The Petri
dish
> is becoming stale.
Which is curious on this list.
I feel sure that there is sufficient exposure and experience here to
define a set of requirements for xlink
and implement them, as was the case with sax.
The need is there (IMHO); I can't recall that being in doubt?
I guess all that is missing is a David Megginson to take the lead and
put forward the (a?) proposal.
Bob, Jirka, Ben, someone else?
regards
--
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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