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Re: Re: Can XLink be fixed?

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• Subject: Re: Re: Can XLink be fixed?
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 22:16:00 -0400
• In-reply-to: <200208142124.g7ELOG319789@d...>

Joe English writes:
> AFAICT, it's not so much the idea of an augmented infoset
> that people find disagreeable about the PSVI, it's the
> nature (and quantity!) of the data that a W3C XML Schema
> validator adds to the Infoset.

Yes.

> Come to think of it, if the Infoset augmentation is expressed
> as a set of attributes with a distinguished namespace name,
> instead of as a new set of [information item]s, then
> the current XLink draft could work unchanged.  You just
> need to explicitly state that the xlink:* attributes need
> not be present in the source document, and may instead
> be added by some (unspecified) preprocessing transformation.

I'm starting to think in terms of transformations - some
decorative/additive (CSS, maybe LSI), and others more drastic and/or
intrusive (PSVI value spaces, SLAIX possibilities, lots of XSLT
transforms).

For general-purpose information description, decorative transformations
seem like a safer bet.  CSS and LSI also have the bonus of applying to
elements (even though they may use attributes or elements), which makes
for an easier decoration.

I think we've still got a lot of figuring to do here.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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