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Re: latest Catalog XML

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  • Subject: Re: latest Catalog XML
  • Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:39:38 -0600
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Wielgosz" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: latest Catalog XML


> Seems like it is straightforward to allow specifying a dataset in
> another catalog  - akin to HTML targets.
>
> Having gotten burned, I will go look at my XML book before I suggest
> using XPointers for this. But philosophically, that's what I'm
> envisioning. That way if there is a known, stable catalog URL you can
> use that as your "base" catalog and point to the datasets in it from
> other temporary or dynamic catalogs..
>
> - Joe

you're right that XPointer is the way to generalize alias across seperate
XML docs. We should have a look at that for version 7.