[Bug 3050] Linking mechanism

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3050





------- Comment #2 from fsasaki@w3.org  2006-03-27 11:55 -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> since the rules elements are the same in the external file as the instance
> file, the rules could be referenced using XInclude very easily. WHy invent a
> new mechanism?
> 

Because people might want to implement ITS without having an XInclude processor
available. However, most of them will have in their programming language a
function to access a document, which takes as an argument the document Uri.
Hence, the @href attribute.