- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 19:46:36 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Oskar Welzl <lists@welzl.info>
- Cc: Kelly Miller <lightsolphoenix@gmail.com>, Devin Bayer <devin@freeshell.org>, Jeremy Rand <jeremy@asofok.org>, www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Oskar Welzl wrote: > > There are various opinions on this topic; me, myself and I all would > happily add xlink:type="simple" if, in return, we'd get > xlink:type="extended" and external linkbases. If, in return, we'd use > standards in XHTML, rather than home-brew proprietary solutions; the > same standards that are used in Open Document, SVG, XTM, XBRL... I don't know about the others, but at least in the case of SVG, you can't use external linkbases. SVG's re-use of XLink is not general re-use, it is really just a repurposing of the attributes from the XLink namespace. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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