Re: two failings of XLink

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 17:45, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> >If not, could you give an example where you think that extended links
> >*would* be a good fit for a markup language's requirements, and
> >describe how your example is different from the example with the
> ><object> element in XHTML?
> 
> I think out of line links and linkbases really require extended 
> links. I don't think you could handle that with multiple simple 
> links.So for example I could have many different slide documents, and 
> use different linkbases to pick and choose different combinations of 
> those to assemble into one slide show. However, the HTML links are 
> very much inline.

Isn't it what Topic Maps are about? and isn't XTM using only simple
links?

I think that "require" is a bit strong and would rather say that
extended links are a convenience given to people who want to implement
out of line links and link bases... Now they use it or not depending on
their needs and perception of the recommendation :-)

Eric

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