- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:42:12 -0500
- To: www-svg@w3.org
At 07:50 PM 11/1/99 +0200, Markku Savela wrote: >Uhh.. this just prompts me to ask about.. > >> > <image x="50" y="50" width="100" height="100" xlink:href="foo.svg"/> > > >Why is there a need for "xlink:" in above? plain "href" should be >enough, "xlink:" seems totally unnecessary! > >...or, is this something brought to us by XML? It's one of the ugliest bits brought to us by the latest version of the XLink working draft (http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink), not XML 1.0 itself. The previous version of XLink provided tools that let you use attribute names like href and src, making it a lot nicer to integrate with existing usage. The new version requires that you use namespaces (hence xlink:) and their particular vocabulary (hence href instead of src). It looks clunkier and it's harder to integrate, but I'm told it's "progress". Oh well. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com
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