Re: question about xlink 1.1

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John Cowan writes:

> Henry S. Thompson scripsit:
>
>> However, I am left with one residual query in this area:  why isn't
>> href #REQUIRED in simpleAttrs in the DTD (and schemas)?  Why does the
>> spec. say "it MAY be used on simple-type elements"?  What does a
>> simple link w/o an href mean?
>
> Ah, memories.  In the very first batch of comments I sent to the Linking
> WG way back when, I asked what the point of one-ended links (simple or
> complex) was.  I never got a very satisfactory reply.

I'm happy with 1-ended links (see for example their use in Robin
Milner's Bigraphs), but I thought that's what extended links were for:
they let you do pretty much anything, whereas simple links are meant
to be just that: simple.  That is, one local anchor, one remote
anchor.  No more and, I thought, no less. . .

ht

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