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Re: [Fwd: The problems with Xlink for integration langu ages]

• To: Micah Dubinko <MDubinko@c...>
• Subject: Re: [Fwd: The problems with Xlink for integration langu ages]
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 07:47:22 -0600
• Cc: Ann Navarro <ann@w...>, Arjun Ray <aray@n...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Micah Dubinko <MDubinko@c...> of "Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:28:10 PDT." <E840F0B7E6189547BDB91DA8BF2228AB28C733@c...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> Uche Ogbugi wrote:
> 
> >The HTML WG is contradicting itself.
> 
> >You seem to be claiming that you have no mandate to develop an AF-like 
> >solution.
> 
> I'm not seeing any contradictions.
> 
> The HTML WG mandate, to quote from the charter [1] is exactly:
> "Develop solutions for linking in the XHTML Family."

This is sly, but not sly enough  :-)

The entire subtext of HLink is as a replacement for XLink.  That is how it has 
been pushed by the HTML WG.  It has to have been so, because if not, there 
would have been a flood of complaints that the WG was balkanizing the linking 
space.

The WG could easily have developed a better solution, and still couched it in 
terms of XHTML.  This would satisfy the letter of the charter, and at the same 
time help justify the abandonment of XLink.


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