The W3C's XML Inclusions standard has just reached Proposed Recommendation status.
This document specifies a processing model and syntax for general purpose inclusion. Inclusion is accomplished by merging a number of XML information sets into a single composite infoset. Specification of the XML documents (infosets) to be merged and control over the merging process is expressed in XML-friendly syntax (elements, attributes, URI references).
This seems really like our overlay mechanism, but a bit more complicated. The listed authors are two guys, one at Microsoft and the other at BEA Systems. Does anyone know if any Mozilla people were involved?
Posted by gerv at September 30, 2004 3:52 PMWould be an interesting idea to start using this on RSS feeds. If the main rss file was just a set of pointers to the actual data in separate files, RSS feeds could use much less bandwidth than they currently do - even for people using static files for their RSS.
Posted by: Stuart at September 30, 2004 9:28 PM