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At 09:54 AM 12/19/99 -0800, Tim Bray wrote: >At 08:50 AM 12/19/99 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >>It'll satisfy the bizarre demands of the XLink folk that we use their >>namespace on attributes any place we create links in our own documents, > >What's bizarre? -Tim The last draft had a nifty if sort of crusty mechanism for specifying XLinks using any attribute names you wanted (see http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-xlink-19980303#remapping). The most recent draft lost that mechanism and everything requires the use of xlink:href instead of myown:src. To me, that's bizarre, excessively demanding, and highly irritating behavior. XLink right now is what I call an 'inconsiderate spec', one which requires everything else built on it to look like it, without the kind of openness that XML provided in the first place. I don't know what anyone else thinks of it, but I've given considerable thought to a short proposal rebuilding the remapping mechanism, starting with xlink:attributes instead of xml:attributes. (And yes, I know that I'll be changing what that prefix maps to, and not just the @#X! prefix.) Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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