Re: Why not XHTML+RDF? was Re: Links are links

From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 11:13:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3D9B3762.5030902@prescod.net> To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, www-tag@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Thursday, 26 April 2012 12:47:12 GMT

Norman Walsh wrote:
>...
> 
> I'm not sure I fully understand the usability requirement. Is it your
> position that in principle
> 
>   <a href="someURI">text</a>
> 
> is usable, but
> 
>   <a x:href="someURI">text</a>
> 
> is not.

Beyond XHTML, I think it is necessary to be able to say:

<cv:doctor
    cv:doctorate="http://.../university"
    cv:specialty="http://.../"
    cv:homepage="http://.../"/>

Basically I should get the benefits of standardized link recognition 
without contorting my vocabulary around XLink at all.

  Paul Prescod