>One of the great strengths of XML as she is practiced is the
>use of indirection. Indirection allows us to point to things
>(e.g., entity sets, partial documents, graphics, stylesheets)
>independent of their physical locations. We name things IN the
>less editable location (the document, the DTD, the XSD, ...) and
>SOMEPLACE ELSE we associate the name with a file location.
>
>
I appreciate indirection. But it never occurred to me that
was one of the key strengths and practices of XML! Maybe
it was in the days of SGML, but I for one
* have never used an XML catalog in anger
* haven't used entity sets for years
* am looking to move to embedding my graphics
* don't use partial documents much (unless you count pointers to RSS feeds)
I do associate stylesheets with XML documents via
a 3rd year (eg a Cocoon site map), but that's about it.
So sorry, I don't buy the basic premise.
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