Re: two failings of XLink

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.
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Received on Thursday, 26 September 2002 22:53:14 UTC