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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: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:02:40 -0400
• In-reply-to: <p04330107b97ee1e51ed2@[192.168.254.4]>

Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:
> 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.

Opera currently does that with CSS, in something of a hack they did for
WML support, if I remember the story.

I covered it about two years ago at:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/04/19/opera/index.html

The key bit is this one:
title   {color:blue;
         text-decoration:underline;
         set-link-source:attr(href);
         use-link-source:current;}


There's also info at:
http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/

The W3C also has a note on similar possibilities in WXS:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink-naming/

It does, however, require new datatypes and the PSVI.
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Simon St.Laurent
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