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 Uche Ogbuji: > > (and architectural forms). > > So how often do you use architectural forms? Actually, I use them all them all the time. I use a weak and maybe corrupt version called the CLASS attribute in HTML, but it's really handy for saying things like "this DIV is really a PRODUCT_NUMBER". CSS does nicely with that, and so can XSLT. I haven't used AFs for attributes since XLink dropped them, but elements are more typically what concerns me. > I must say that for the vocabularies I deal with, I prefer XLink's > current approach to the AF approach. It's possible that I would feel > differently about this is XML had an AF mechanism that was as simple > and widespread as XML Namespaces. I think namespaces are widely supported, yes. Whether namespaces are actually as good an idea as AFs (or as simple in principle) is still a topic for some hot debate. Check the archives for postings by Arjun Ray or Steven Newcomb for more details on this. The deeper we get into namespaces, the more I appreciate AFs. I can't say I thought that would happen. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com 
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