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Re: Re: Can XLink be fixed?

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• Subject: Re: Re: Can XLink be fixed?
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:45:30 -0400
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Tim Bray writes:
> Perhaps, but content-negotiation is kind of a blunt instrument and
> isn't going to help you with for example different picture
> resolutions or expert-vs-introductory level material or a lot of
> other things.

Sure, but once you've insisted that there can only be one link per
element, you're going to have to deal with a lot of blunt instruments.

I don't think the child element approach of complex links or the pretty
much undefined prospect of child element simple links solves that in a
way that makes anyone but XLink partisans (how many of those are there?)
happy.  I could certainly live with:

<img>
  <src xlink:href="whatever.gif" />
  <longdesc xlink:href="item.txt" />
  <alt>This is alt text</alt>
</img>

I'm not sure I feel confident, however, that it's the one and only
correct answer.  There's a layer in there which feels like it's
somewhere between simple and complex links, and I don't think XLink has
really described how the relationship between the img element and the
child element simple links in src and longdesc might work.

It's a tough problem, not one we can get around with simple name
remapping, and I suspect we'll have to think hard about this for a
while.


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Simon St.Laurent
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