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On 25/06/2012 16:39, Rushforth, Peter wrote: > So code-on-demand would work not only for HTML, but also more > powerfully, for anything XML. It would be a really retrograde step to force certain named attribute/elements to have _fixed_ semantics. That is by design one of the main differences between using a language-specific markup such as html and a generic markup such as xml. It is (more or less) OK to do this for things in the xml namepsace, but certainly not for all href attributes for example). Even something like xml:id is sort of OK but its benefits are rather limited as usually you don't want to use a fixed name, you want to use a name that fits with the application design. (id for example). This has always been a fatal flaw in xlink (and explicitly why it was never adopted in xhtml2 drafts as using html-specific attribute such as href and src were always going to be more popular _in html_ than xlink variants of the same). If you want the xml to be treated as html with <link elements associating scripts and stylesheets etc, and href acting like xhtml:a/@href then supply an xslt stylesheet that expresses that behaviour. Note even in (x)html href doesn't -always- denote a link (although that was proposed for xhtml2) Html href only implies a link on certain pre-specified elements. So the fact that href in unknown xml does not imply any linking behaviour is entirely consistent. If you modify your browsers default xslt (or if you serve the xml already associated to a non-default xslt) then you can already do everything that you ask. If you serve xml in an unknown vocabulary then it is right that the browser does not interpret it at all and just shows it verbatim (with optionally syntax highlighting applied) to do anything different would be confusing, or dangerous or both. But actually I'm confused. This thread is about microxml so given that browsers already do full xml so are presumably highly unlikely to do microxml as well, how would adding pre-defined semantics to xml:link in microxml help or hinder the use of xml on the web? David David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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