- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:15:39 -0800
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>| At 11:07 AM 2/24/97 -0500, Sam Hunting wrote: >| >> >Why not just "xlink"? >| > As Jon points out, it needs to begin with "XML-" Uh, why was that, again? If we have a reserved attribute named "XML-LINK", used to select among somewhere between 2 and 5 different types of elements that make up the linking machinery, then we *own* this attribute. Why do we need to prefix the *values* with "XML-"? It seems like <A XML-LINK="LINK"> or <WHIZZY-POINTER XML-LINK="XLINK"> are safe and unambiguous. I suspect there was a good reason for this that I managed to miss, and I can't dig it out of the correspondence. -Tim
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