Fwd: xml:href, xml:rel, xml:type

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I assume the appropriate answer is to point him to XLink,
but I thought I'd share this with the WG first.  If someone
cares to draft specific wording for an answer, that would be
much appreciated.

paul

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Subject: 	xml:href, xml:rel, xml:type
Resent-Date: 	Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:09:37 +0000
Resent-From: 	xml-names-editor@w3.org
Date: 	Thu, 5 Apr 2012 19:09:52 +0000
From: 	Rushforth, Peter <Peter.Rushforth@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca>
To: 	xml-names-editor@w3.org <xml-names-editor@w3.org>



Hi,

Has it been considered to include standardized typed links into the core
xml specification, in a manner that is similar to xml:base and xml:lang?

If these attributes were available, xml could be a hypertext language without
schema designers having to reinvent the markup for this concept, which hinders
interoperability.

I would suggest the following *implicitly associated* attributes in the xml namespace:

href - a single URI value
rel - one or more space-separated tokens or URIs, which identify the relationships
       the targeted resource has to the current context
type - a single MIME media type

Cheers,
Peter Rushforth