- From: Murray Altheim <murray.altheim@sun.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 12:18:13 -0700
- To: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
FYI. From the HTML WG list, a response of mine to the meeting minutes. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: XLink Issues [Was: Minutes from 1 August 2001] Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 11:27:33 -0700 From: Murray Altheim <murray.altheim@sun.com> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. To: Beth Epperson <beppe@netscape.com> CC: HTML WG <w3c-html-wg@w3.org>, "Eve L. Maler" <eve.maler@sun.com> References: <3B6C1874.DB28F7E7@netscape.com> Beth Epperson wrote: [...] > New actions item > > OPEN Steven: Contact the coordination group and explain the problems with > using Xlink for XHTML 2.0: will send email per suggestion from Ann Steven and I seem to agree to disagree on the merits/demerits of XLink, but if you've got a list I'd like to add the one thing I do believe is a real problem with XLink. I think I could build almost any linking structure in XHTML with XLink except for the restriction on nesting level; i.e., XLink elements only "know" about each other at a parent-child level. If for example an arc is at a grandchild level it's "invisible" to XLink- compatible processors. This is the one change to XLink I'd advocate -- any descendant element within an XLink element should be considered part of the link. This relaxation in the spec (no change of syntax) would make a big difference in my designs (and we'd have used XLink more thoroughly in XML Topic Maps and other projects I'm working on). Murray ........................................................................... Murray Altheim, SGML/XML Grease Monkey <mailto:murray.altheim@sun.com> XML Technology Center Sun Microsystems, 1601 Willow Rd., MS UMPK17-102, Menlo Park, CA 94025 i am going to see if i cannot reform insects in general i have constituted myself a missionary extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary and entomological to bring idealism to the little struggling brothers -- archy (1927)
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