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Even better: <extref docno="CTA 50-970" linktype="message" href="CTA 50-970 is not included in this document set." color="green" popup="1" /> Note the linktype and the content of the href which of course, isn't an html href but hey, who cares? :) In short, once on the path to including hyperlinking semantics, there is no end to it. You assert that the web is "the application". That simply isn't true. The web is a lot of different applications knitted together. XSL was/ideal because it enables many languages to co-exist and leaves it to the locals to work out the details. It is the Data is Data mantra at work which asserts the Local Rules Prevail notion. Games on the web and real time 3D are most certainly web applications but they do a lot of local work to get around the performance penalties of a text-oriented browser based orientation. They had to wait over a decade to use the HTML web browser to do the tricks the non-HTML systems could do in 1996 On The Web. The overhead is borne by APIs. And while there are no patents on XML (we sidestepped that), there are patents on web browser technologies. The EOLAS patent was years in court and finally voided only recently: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/249695/eolas_loses_in_web_ patents_claim_against_google_and_others.html and others are still battling http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/microsoft-buys-netscape-web-patents -from-aol-to-attack-google/2203 "Netscape's intellectual property (IP), however also included such universal Web browser mainstays as Secure Socket Layers (SSL), cookies, and JavaScript. It's these old Netscape patents that Microsoft is paying a billion bucks for. And, you know what? For a mere billion Microsoft got a steal of a deal." len
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