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Re: Media typs and XPointer, XLink, XPath, and XSLT

1999-07-13 06:11:35
Rick Jelliffe wrote:
I am confused about a related question: I have heard somewhere that
the XPointer group was going to make XPointers only valid for pointing
into XML documents.  So, for example, it would not be legitimate for
an XPointer to point into a WebCGM document or other structured data.  Is 
this true?

Since XPointers refer explicitly to element trees with attributes,
an XPointer into CGM (which is a binary format) wouldn't make
much sense.  The real issue is whether XPointers can point into
things like SMIL documents, which "just happen" to be encoded
in XML.

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