- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:46:58 -0400
- To: <dwagner@kevric.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
I'm really glad to see this discussion getting started, but I want to add another point of reference, the XLink work being done for XML. The relationship between linking and styling seems to be something more avoided than discussed, and it certainly remains complex (and some days controversial.) The draft is here: http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink There are some significant complaints about XLink's status as a linking vocabulary rather than a linking architecture (see http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=336), but I think the structures in XLink are worth supporting. External links in particular go beyond the bounds of the proposal being made here, but I think they go beyond any publicly-offered proposal for XLink/CSS integration anyway. Supporting links through styling isn't that wacky an idea. I've had fun playing with a 'stopgap' measure in Opera 4 that provides some very simple linking capability within XML documents as well. (And it integrates with XLink easily, though it provides much less functionality.) Let's keep this discussion going. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com
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