- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:47:24 -0400
- To: www-tag@w3.org
I wrote earlier: > (Possible alternatives for such external linkbases, also already > written, include RDF and XML Topic Maps. Other alternatives include > some kind of AF-like approach or a vocabulary created with explicit > XHTML resonance.) Offlist, I've had a suggestion that Weblogs in general and RSS in particular provide some linkbase-like functionality. It might be good to add those communities to the discussion, as I suspect that suggestion has lots of merit as an example of how people enjoy using hypertext. There are some nice hints of this in: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/05/02/semanticwebsite.html I don't think any of the various RSS flavors use XLink directly, though there have been enough of them that I may have missed it. Intriguingly, RSS doesn't mess around with putting link URIs in attributes much; it's got full-blown link and url elements. (RDF information in RSS 1.0 certainly uses URIs in attributes, however.) ------------- Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA http://simonstl.com may be my URI http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether
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