- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 22:40:06 -0400
- To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>, www-tag@w3.org
At 3:58 PM -0400 9/26/02, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >I'm still not quite sure why you started out by saying: >> There is no one-URI per element rule in XLink. there is a one-URI per >> tag rule. That'sa very different thing. > Consider this example: <object xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/xlink"> <longdesc xlink:href="http://www.example.com"/> <src xlink:href="http://www.example.org"/> <someotherlink xlink:href="http://www.example.net"/> Look Mom! We can put alternate text here! We can even <strong>markup</strong> the alternate text. Hell, we can even provide a classic HTML <img src="http://www.example.org"/> for browsers that don't support XHTML2. I learned this trick from Java. </object> This img element has *3* links. The img element is not just about it's start tag. It includes all its content. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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