Re: W3C and XInclude

["Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@softwareag-usa.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David RR Webber" <Gnosis_@compuserve.com>
To: "The XML/EDI Group" <xmledi-list@lists.bizserve.com>; "XInclude WG"
<www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org>; "ebXML Architecture"
<ebxml-architecture@lists.oasis-open.org>; "Dave Hollander"
<dmh@commerce.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 8:24 PM
Subject: W3C and XInclude


> http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude
>
> With a heavy sigh I draw your attention to this excellent work.
>
> Unfortunately this is an orphan piece - that in my opinion
> rightly belongs as work within the Schema and ebXML WG's
> to ensure a single consistent and focused function set.
>
> Right now I'm real un-easy about this splintering of efforts.

I *believe* that the XLink working group  believed that XInclude is so
important that it should be in the Core XML spec.  The way one proposes
things like that in the W3C is to produce a W3C Note, which they did. So if
all goes well, XInclude would be in XML 1.1 and universally supported... so
it's an attempt to unify rather than fragment the XML world.

My humble apologies if I'm misunderstanding something here.