Re: CDF WG comments on XLink 1.1 LC

Hey Norm,

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:08:01PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> was heard to say:
> | Greetings XML Core WG.  The following are the comments of the Compound
> | Document Formats WG in response to the Last Call WD of XLink 1.1 ...
> |
> | The CDF WG recognizes that the XLink 1.1 specification provides some
> | very useful capabilities that we will continue to track for ongoing
> | CDF specification work.  It is the recommendation of the CDF WG that
> | providing a generic parameter passing mechanism, such as html:object's:
> |
> |    <html:object type="image/svg+xml" data="child.svg" >
> |      <html:param name="eventBubbleUp" value="true" />
> |    </html:object>
> |
> | would make the specification more useful for supporting CDF use cases.
> 
> I think that is outside of the scope of the changes we are chartered
> to make.

That may very well be; we didn't check the chartered scope of the
effort.

>That said, I'm not really sure I understand what you're asking
> for, could you elaborate a little?

Just that when linking is done with "inclusion" semantics, i.e. where
the included content is to be seen as logically a "peer" with the
document that links to it (as with html:object, or html:img), the
relationship often necessitates the passing of additional parameters.
See the example above.

As XLink supports these same inclusion semantics via show="embed", we
thought that parameter support would also be nice to have, at least for
our requirements... though the group didn't specifically discuss
'show="embed"'.

Just my 2c based on what I understood of concensus in the WG...

Cheers,

Mark.