- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:51:50 -0700
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > >... > Either way, HLink is not a viable solution because it is specific > to XHTML (by definition, even if not by technology). I think that the working group defined it to be HTML specific to avoid the political battle of saying that they needed to define a new language that has 100% overlap with XLink. > If XLink in its current form is unsuitable for XHTML 2.0, then I believe > it is unsuitable for any language and should not be a Recommendation. That is my personal conclusion. XLink was made a REC out of exhaustion and has not found an enthiastic user base. > It is therefore necessary for those people ill-effected by XLink's > status to either come up with XLink 2.0 (not another format-specific > meta-markup language) or use the W3C process to change the status > of XLink to better reflect its real status within the W3C. I don't think it is necessary to get all tied up in process until we've worked out what are the technical issues. It isn't just longdesc. Paul Prescod
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