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Re: linking, 80/20

• To: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Subject: Re: linking, 80/20
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:52:59 -0600
• Cc: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Paul Prescod <paul@p...> of "Sat, 17 Aug 2002 13:29:46 PDT." <3D5EB23A.F74BA6F7@p...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> 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 disagree. There is a cognitive load imposed by requiring authors to
> remember what namespaces various features of their markup language come
> from. RDF for metadata. DC for a particular ontology. XLink for linking.
> XForms for forms. HTML's original virtue was how easy it was to learn
> and remember. 

This may be so, but I don't see why I should accept it on faith.  One could 
say that HTML has a lot for people to remember that could have been 
simplified.  I find it very hard to believe that it would be such an 
additional burden for people to remember the string "xlink:".


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Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
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