Re: HLink

I agree that XPath adds too much unnecessary
complexity. If part of the idea is to support bots
and crawlers it might be too much for them.

Supporting 'header' level links is clearly a must.
Not so sure whether support for links within the
actual XML ('body') is so important though, is it?

----
Stephen D Green


On 5 July 2013 16:37, Rushforth, Peter <Peter.Rushforth@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca>wrote:

> **
> 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
>
>  ------------------------------
> *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).
>
>  ----
> Stephen D Green
>
>
> On 5 July 2013 14:54, Stephen D Green <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" />.
>>
>>  ----
>> Stephen D Green
>>
>>
>> On 5 July 2013 14:00, Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/25/hlink.html is where I found
>>> reference to it.
>>>
>>>
>>>  ----
>>> Stephen D Green
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5 July 2013 13:57, Rushforth, Peter <
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>