- From: Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 14:34:23 +0200
- To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Cc: "www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org" <www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org>
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:20:26AM +0200, Eric van der Vlist wrote: > I find it confusing that the [1] abstract states that: > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xlink-20010627/ > > "This specification defines the XML Linking Language (XLink), which > allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and > describe links between resources." > > When technically speaking what gets added is rather... a set of XML > attributes! > > Do you consider that the links are defined by the elements in which > those attributes are included or is it a leftover from previous > releases? IMHO the fact of adding the xlink:type attribute add the linking semantic to the element. It hence allow element to describes links, I think this was always the case even now that the specification don't defines elements in it's own namespace. Daniel P.S.: Was that a grave dilemna requesting an urgent answer ? -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network http://redhat.com/products/network/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ Sep 17-18 2001 Brussels Red Hat TechWorld http://www.redhat-techworld.com
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