• To: "'DuCharme, Bob \(LNG-CHO\)'" <bob.ducharme@l...>,"'Jonathan Robie'" <jonathan.robie@d...>,"'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: After XQuery, are we done?
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:22:19 +0100
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> you can put down "XML Linking." 

No thankyou.

Hyperlinks belong in the user interface space, XML should represent
information independently of the user interface. It was always
architecturally wrong to do hyperlinking at the XML level and the attempt
should not be repeated.

"Modelling relationships in XML" - that would be different.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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