- From: Steve DeRose <Steven_DeRose@brown.edu>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 10:45:31 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
At 3:42 PM -0000 1/24/00, John Cowan wrote: >For no discernible reason, the current XLink draft does not allow >links all of whose resources are local. This restriction should >be lifted, requiring only that an extended link have at least >one resource either local or remote. That's an interesting case. Hmmm. Can you describe when it would be most useful? Is there a particular case you have in mind? I don't particularly doubt it might be very useful, but the case isn't leaping to mind for me yet.... In a sense, the fact that the data are adjacent already connects them in XML; what would be the added semantics you're trying to achieve? An endpoint in such a link could only be local to that one link, of course; any other links that reference it would have to have it non-local, of course..... Steven_DeRose@Brown.edu; http://www.stg.brown.edu/~sjd Chief Scientist, Scholarly Technology Group, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Brown University
Received on Monday, 24 January 2000 13:45:39 UTC