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Re: XLink olden days

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• Subject: Re: XLink olden days
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 21:58:29 -0400
• In-reply-to: <200208110200.WAA11480@m...>

John Cowan writes:
> Simon St.Laurent scripsit:
> 
> > I think the notion is that XLink was originally a toolkit for
> > describing linking semantics, which used an architectural forms
> > [based|like]
> 
> An architectural form *exactly*.  That's where the attribute-renaming
> and link-type (which is really element-renaming) stuff comes from.

Sure - they just didn't bring in the whole machinery for AF.  The XLink
work is described as a particular case for XLink, not a more general
system.

> > In later drafts, post-namespaces, XLink became just a vocabulary. 
> > To use XLink, you must use attributes in the XLink namespace.  
> 
> It occurs to me that the shift from SGML-style renaming to namespaces
> is essentially like the shift from uucp email addressing to domainist
> (@-based) email addressing.  We've gone from an environment where mail
> is routed based on the best discoverable path from here to there,
> to a system in which every mail destination has an absolute name
> which says nothing about delivery.
> 
> Almost everybody, except perhaps Peter Honeyman, agrees that this is
> an improvement.

Email didn't face scoping issues or the infinite hall of tautological
mirrors that is the URI universe.  I don't think the comparison is
plausible.

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