RE: HLink

Hi Stephen,

AF seems to have both in-line and out-of-line semantics, and the HLink note seems to me to be a type of AF.
(maybe I'm wrong, I'm just learning about AF after all).

But regarding dret's blog piece:

"the main idea is that links are identified by XPath-based selectors"

even using XPath, which I do love (well, version 2.0 at least), I think is too complex.  I think you
need to have a what you read is what you get approach to hypertext.

I am in favour of "no fancy tricks", as far as possible, and I think this falls under the "fancy tricks" rubric.

Cheers,
Peter

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From: Stephen D Green [mailto:stephengreenubl@gmail.com]
Sent: July 5, 2013 10:25
To: Rushforth, Peter
Cc: public-xmlhypermedia@w3.org
Subject: Re: HLink

A search ('hateoas hlink') turned up this blog which might be of interest
http://dret.typepad.com/dretblog/2009/06/link-discovery-for-xml.html.
Very little else (which in itself is quite interesting).

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Stephen D Green


On 5 July 2013 14:54, Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com<mailto:stephengreenubl@gmail.com>> wrote:
We could think about what an HATEOAS
implementation using HLink and XML would look like.

I'm assuming (not 100% clear reading the W3C Note)
that HLink can be used with XML outside of XHTML.
There is the example given in the Note of using it with
some plain old XML
<home xmlns="http://www.example.com/markup" />.

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Stephen D Green


On 5 July 2013 14:00, Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com<mailto:stephengreenubl@gmail.com>> wrote:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/25/hlink.html is where I found reference to it.


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Stephen D Green


On 5 July 2013 13:57, Rushforth, Peter <Peter.Rushforth@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca<mailto:Peter.Rushforth@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca>> wrote:
Sure, let's talk about HLink.  I haven't seen that before.  What does it do?

How does it improve on XLink?

Cheers,
Peter