On 9/27/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/27/07, Janne Savukoski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Just in case no-one had happened to consider, there's the W3C's spec > > "Remote Events for XML" (http://www.w3.org/TR/rex/) which could (or > > not) be used in xep 228, Shared Editing. Some parts of it seemed a > > little verbose to me at first, but on another look it felt ok... > > however, I wouldn't wonder if it was checked out and scrapped already. > > Interesting.. It would seem that REX is the general purpose XML > manipulation that was talked about when the whiteboarding was rejected > by the council because they wished a more general purpose solution... >
REX has been looked at but it really only provides a format for transferring the events; it says nothing about synchronizing them if they arrive from many different sources. Apparently there are also some patent issues with it. Joonas
