Re: two failings of XLink

I wrote:
> Mark up the text with elements, add
> metadata about how those attributes work with attributes, and use
> occasional empty elements for content in a very few difficult cases.

Should be:
> Mark up the text with elements, add
> metadata about how those elements work with attributes,

XLink is kind of a funny creature, since in some way it defines what the
element "means" through the xlink:type attribute, and then provides more
information about the link through additional attributes... there's a
lot to think about there.

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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

Received on Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:23:04 UTC