- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:29:43 -0700
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>, "Norman Walsh" <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
> | * Don't tell other people what to do in their name spaces > > How does XLink tell anyone what to do in their namespace? XLink says > how to use the XLink namespace to leverage a set of linking semantics. I said name spaces, not namespaces... XLink forces the use of xlink syntax to denote a link, rather than letting a langauge designer determine their own term. > | * Don't put metadata in identifiers > > Where is that proposed? It's implied by URI Opacity [1]. In other words, XLink, or at least the syntax that most people want to use, seems to force the conflation of the identification of a property (a particular kind of link) and the fact that it's a link; this is very limiting, as has been outlined elsewhere. 1. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html#opaque
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