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

• To: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: XHTML 2.0 and the death of XLink and XPointer?
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:21:23 -0400
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At 4:43 AM -0700 8/13/02, Christopher R. Maden wrote:


>Pretty much... XLink started out trying to grandfather HTML markup. 
>There were really three options with respect to that requirement:
>

No. There was an option 4 which would have met the requirements, 
though it may not have been recognized at the time. As others in this 
thread have suggested, XLink could (and perhaps should) have been 
defined in a more external-way that attached linksheets to documents 
rather than embedding the markup inline.
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