- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 23:05:59 -0700
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
- CC: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, www-tag@w3.org
noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: >... > > ----Possible benefits of XLink for XML --------- > ------in general and XHTML in particular-------- > > 1. A linking mechanism that is common across all (or most) vocabularies > and applicable to all uses in those vocabularies, so that it can be > recognized independent of context. Except that the TAG has indicated at various times that XLink only applies to "hypertext document" markup and not to the much more populous vocabularies for "data"-like things. So they seem determined to degrade this benefit! Your "undo" problem is interesting and I know RDF has issues around it also. Perhaps moving the link recognition data out-of-line offers a hint towards the solution of the mistaken assertions. Something like HLink could say that element such and such is a link but not when it appears within the "TrashCan" element. Nevertheless I don't think we can ignore the benefits to having a common way to recognize links so that they may be followed by spiders and link checkers. Paul Prescod
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