On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:26:18AM -0700, James Kass wrote:
> To store all such information in each relevant file using
> non-BMP characters does seem a bit much.  Even without
> any new representations, providing this data in each file
> might work if the user had only one or two such files, 
> but wouldn't most users favoring a PUA encoding have 
> many files?

Character set information must go along with every non-Latin-1
webpage already, and most word processor formats already carry along
huge quantities of data, such that just adding the information
shouldn't be hard at all. 
 
> Earlier, someone brought up the idea that the format of
> the tag could include an active link to download additional
> data.  If the tag must be in each file's header, what happens 
> if a user is looking at files off-line?  Does the system read 
> the header of the file, determine that data is required on-line,
> and then prompt the user to connect?  Every time that file
> or a similar file is opened?

Intellegent software cached the file and loads it up from the cache;
the number of distinct uses for the PUA any one person will run
across is probably low enough to cache every one permenantly. Dumb
software will do the TeX thing and say "File not found. Please enter
alternate PUA reference for 'Klingon at http://www.kli.org/klingon.xml':".  
Note that there's already precedence in XML for stuff like this; XML
includes a URL to find the doctype that's needed to validate it. 

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