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[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> The question here is how to handle embedded hyperlinks in a block of 
> text. For example the reference question or a relationship. A simple way
> is to return an xml format text which does have markup,

Right, let me clarify what I mean - the data engine should not return 
any specific "presentation" markup (e.g. HTML, XHMTL, Structured Text, 
etc. etc.).
In short, the data engine don't do no presentation stuff nohow!

XML is indeed markup, so my use of that term was too ambiguous...

If we are using XML for data transport then obviously the data engine 
will be spitting out XML-marked-up data and plenty of it!

> >  > The API *should* provide ways to ask the data engine to perform all 
> > the  > operations we can think of between a client and the data set 
> > (and be  > expandable to those we haven't thought of yet).  For example:
>
> Argh, can make for a very complex server.
>
> A good XML DTD could specify the API in a straight forward way.
> I've done stuff like this in other projects, and its got lots of 
> advantages.

I think that's what I mean...just didn't say it that way...if XML is our 
data transport then describing our XML is one way of specifying what the 
data engine will and won't do.

And, if XML lives up to the hype, we ought to be able to build 
extensibility in there too...?

cheers,
John S.



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