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RE: XHTML 2.0 and the death of XLink and XPointer?

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• Subject: RE: XHTML 2.0 and the death of XLink and XPointer?
• From: "Jelks Cabaniss" <jelks@j...>
• Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 17:12:08 -0400
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Tim Bray wrote:
 
> Chris' statement of the history is pretty fair.  I
> personally ended up coming down against AF-style markup both
> for namespaces and for XLink because I thought you ended up
> with ugly, error-prone markup 

Funny how perspectives differ.  Some hear "cologne"; some see, well,
"colon".  

New World odors aside, attributes are just attributes; does anyone
really find colonized instances "pretty"?  To me they resemble rabid
Rottweilers let loose in the Louvre.

(And as to error-prone, uncountable email and newsgroup threads later,
... no comment.)


/Jelks

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