- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:53:07 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
The W3C has published HLink as a working draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/hlink/ I'd strongly recommend that anyone interested in how linking works read this document. If you never go beyond (X)HTML, you'll get a better understanding of the kinds of options HTML provides. If you're interested in the XML side as well, you'll get an excellent perspective on some seemingly simple capabilities that XLink isn't, well, capable of handling. I spent a long time with XLink, and thought at one point that it might prove useful stuff capable of supporting a wide range of possibilities. XLink seemed to shrink when it started supporting Namespaces in XML. HLink provides less functionality in some ways, but it also seems to keep a much more open mind about both the nature and style of hypertext linking. HLink is well worth strong consideration, whatever W3C politics do in the end. ------------- Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA http://simonstl.com may be my URI http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether
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