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On Saturday 12 February 2005 02:28, Micah Dubinko wrote: > 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 Yes, now it makes sense to me too, assuming I*m not wrong. A href and src are both references, but the /essense/ of the former is to literally be a reference(that is its purpose), while it for the latter only is a mechanism for achieving something else. > > 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> Yes, according to that system. For curiosity: I had a feel of XInclude being spot on, probably because href is more common than src(well, that's a subjective matter). Cheers, Frans
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