• From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w...>
• To: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 02:03:57 -0400

On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 01:18 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Liam R E Quin scripsit:
> 
> > The right thing would have been to have taken the architectural forms
> > idea from HyTime and XMLified it, solving the additional problem of
> > "link discovery". That's with 20-20 hindsight.
> 
> The original version of XLink *was* AF-based.  See
> http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-link-970731 .

Yes, kinda (not using PIs) but in a very SGML/DTD way, not surprisingly
given when the work was being done (I was actually on the WG for a
while). Thanks for the reminder, I had indeed forgotten that stage.

Liam


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