- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:31:20 +0100
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Cc: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
* Norman Walsh wrote: >/ Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> was heard to say: >| * Norman Walsh wrote: >|>There are no elements in the XLink namespace. Your question, if I >|>understand it, is what should this mean: >|> >|> <html:a href="x" xlink:href="y" ...> >| >| I am not interested in what this "means", I am interested in whether >| it makes sense to make a XHTML+XLink user agent that can process >| XHTML+XLink documents and if, what should happen for a fragment as >| above when the user activates the link. You are basically saying it >| is clear what happens for an XHTML-only user agent and for a XLink- >| only user agent; I do not disagree, but that's not what I am talking >| about. > >The Core WG has considered this question again. As far as we can see, >the XHTML specification, if it chose to adopt XLink, could say what a >UA should do. The XLink specification describes precisely what XLink >semantics the element has. There's nothing more that the XLink >specification *can* say. An XHTML UA that encounters this (invalid) >XHTML element is free to do whatever the XHTML speicification says it >can do. If it's also an XLink application, then it can implement the >XLink semantics if it wants (or at user request). What do you mean by "can"? Can I make a fully conforming XHTML+XLink user agent that does not observe any of the XLink processor require- ments? All I want to do is to make a XHTML+XLink user agent that fully complies with all XLink and XHTML requirements, I think this is not currently possible, so either this is made possible or the draft needs to point out that making such a user agent is a bad idea. I'd think it's a bad idea. I'm happy with this beeing a bad idea, but it needs to be clear from the draft. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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