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At 03:55 PM 8/17/2002 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>Simon St.Laurent scripsit:
>
> > Allowing href on everything - whether or not it has the unnecessary
> > xlink: namespace slapped on it - is a much larger advance in making
> > hypertext broadly useful than any attempt to rewrite XHTML to take
> > advantage of complex links.
>
>I agree, actually. But it wouldn't cost them anything to use
>xlink:href (and a #FIXED attribute of xlink:type="simple") and it
>would make generalized link harvesters that much more useful.
I agree. And it follows that, having adopted the XLink namespace,
XHTML could extend that linking functionality in whatever direction they
wanted in subsequent releases, in accordance with a superiour version of
XLink itself.
--->Ben
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