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• Subject: Re: XLink and mixed vocabulary design
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:30:54 -0500
• In-reply-to: <400FDEAF.3030002@e...>

robin.berjon@e... (Robin Berjon) writes:
>The ability to understand links without knowledge of the 
>vocabulary seems to me to be of high value. 

If it was, people might do it. 

>The ability to stuff embedding and hyperlinking on the same element
>appears to me to be of fairly little value.

To you, perhaps.  To me, it seems like basic functionality.

I think there are multiple communities of hypertext practice out there,
and XLink, so far as I can tell, has proven optimal (heck, even
exciting) for none.

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