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[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

John Schinnerer wrote:
> 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...
Cool, I had a feeling this was just a slight miss communication between 
the two of us. It being such a key issue its worth clearing up.
<gag>Ok course if we had a good sematic xml for email it would not have 
happened</gag>

> 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...?

This is the challange of creating a good DTD.

Rich
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