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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. -- "When I walk on the floor for the final execution, I'll wear a denim suit. I'll walk in there like Willie Nelson, John Wayne, Will Smith -- Men in Black -- James Brown. Maybe do a Michael Jackson moonwalk." Congressman James Traficant.
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