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Just a point of clarification please: show="embed" has the semantics of "insert the target into the source"? Dave LeBlanc -----Original Message----- From: Eve L. Maler [mailto:eve.maler@e...] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 2:51 PM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: W3C XML Schema best practice : inclusions Sorry to contribute only now that the thread has gone a bit stale, but... Please be very careful. XLink's show="embed" semantic has nothing to do with actual inclusion (where inclusion means something like "macro substitution" or "entity resolution"). Embedding has to do with merging the *rendering* of a link's ending resource into the starting resource, much as HTML's IMG element blends a "remote" graphic with a "local" document for display. I would say that the show attribute is one of the things that makes XLink uniquely about hyperlinking, as opposed to a generic association mechanism such as RDF or topic maps, so I believe it makes eminent sense for that attribute to be in the XLink namespace. Eve At 09:40 AM 11/9/00 +0100, Eric van der Vlist wrote: >David Orchard wrote: > > The two problems that I mentioned still exist. All of the attributes on > > XLinks are specifically meant for hypertext. XInclude is very much not a > > hypertext problem, it's a tree join in memory problem. Therefore most of > > the attributes that XLink has created aren't appropriate for XInclude. > >Yes, you're right, XLink is heavily biased toward hypertext presentation >and it would have been cleaner if the "show" attribute had be from >another namespace. -- Eve Maler +1 781 442 3190 Sun Microsystems XML Technology Center eve.maler @ east.sun.com
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