• From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@g...>
• To: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 08:27:03 +0100

> Hyperlinking is not about presentation, it's about expressing a relationship
> between documents.  For various hysterical raisins, XML-based document types
> have most often chosen to use non-generic markup to express hyperlinking.

Hyperlinks in html are a programming language instruction to the
browser, rather than a way to model relationships in your data.

What are the hysterical reasons?  (or raisins) :)


-- 
Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com

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