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In XHTML (and XForms) a consistent pattern is emerging. href means something the user chooses to traverse, and link activation generally replaces the entire document src means something that automatically traverses, and link activation generally replaces something smaller than the entire document Both of these are defined in such a way that through modularization techniques they can be (and in XHTML 2.0 actually are) defined across arbitrary elements. And yes, by this measure, XInclude is using the wrong attribute name. <shrug> .micah Frans Englich wrote: >On the topic of vocabulary design, the picky category: > >What is the best attribute name for "referencing" URLs? href or src? > >Among common W3C vocabularies I see no pattern in the choice of names. For >example, XInclude uses @href, but XHTML's script element uses src. What makes >a Javascript a "source" while excluding an XML document, which is inserted >into another, from the "source" definition? > >A search for "define: href" on google says it's a Hypertext Reference. Isn't >the content of a src element that too? > >This is the answer: 1) There's no pattern, it's all random; 2) Frans should go >do something useful. > >Right? > > -- Available for consulting. XForms, web forms, information overload. Micah Dubinko mailto:micah@d... Brain Attic, L.L.C. http://brainattic.info Yahoo IM: mdubinko Learn XForms today: http://xformsinstitute.com
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