- From: Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:32:12 +0100
- To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Cc: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org, HTML WG <w3c-html-wg@w3.org>, Tim Berners-Lee <tbl@w3.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Philipp Hoschka <hoschka@w3.org>, Daniel.Veillard@w3.org, w3t-arch@w3.org, ht@w3.org
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:24:03AM +0100, Steven Pemberton wrote: > Regarding http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink-naming/, "XLink Markup Name Control", > which we assume is a result of the following requirement: > > "In a meeting between Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly (representing XML > Schema), Philipp Hoschka (representing SMIL) and Daniel Veillard > (representing XLink), there was consensus that Xlink and XML > Schema should not exit CR unless there is a solution to generic > link recognition that allows XHTML and SMIL to continue to use their > current linking markup. In particular, it must be demonstrated that > a program can use this solution to detect the linking semantics of > XHTML and SMIL linking attributes." > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-linking-comments/2000JulSep/0169 > .html > > The HTML WG has read the proposed solution, and have come to the conclusion > that this note doesn't address our problems. While there are several aspects > that are left open, which we will be happy to elaborate on in more detail, > the central architectural failure is the ability to describe more than one > URL per element. Link recognition is done through type recognition. You can perfectly have multiple attributes of the same type on a single element Please give the precice reasoning why you think it does not work, and urgently, XLink WG will request PR today for Xlink. Daniel -- Daniel.Veillard@w3.org | W3C, INRIA Rhone-Alpes | libxml Gnome XML toolkit Tel : +33 476 615 257 | 655, avenue de l'Europe | http://xmlsoft.org/ Fax : +33 476 615 207 | 38330 Montbonnot FRANCE | Rpmfind search site http://www.w3.org/People/all#veillard%40w3.org | http://rpmfind.net/
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