- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:57:03 -0500
- To: xlxp-dev@fsc.fujitsu.com
- Cc: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
I'm concerned about some of the naming conventions in the Dec. 20, 1999 working draft of XLink. Both xlink:locator and xlink:resource elements locate resources. An xlink:locator element locates a remote resource. An xlink:resource element locates a local resource. I think this is unnecessarily confusing. It implies the wrong dichotomy between the two elements. The real dichotomy is between local and remote, not between resource and locator. I think xlink:local and xlink:remote would be better names here, or perhaps xlink:local-resource and xlink:remote-resource. And of course, the same applies to the attribute based syntax. Comments? +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible (IDG Books, 1999) | | http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/books/bible/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764532367/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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