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Re: [Fwd: The problems with Xlink for integration languages]

• To: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Subject: Re: [Fwd: The problems with Xlink for integration languages]
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 21:05:02 -0600
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Joe English <jenglish@f...> of "Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:40:30 PDT." <200209132340.g8DNeU313891@d...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> 
> Ann Navarro forwarded the following to xml-dev:
> 
> > >FYI - as promised, the HTML Working Group has released a document that
> > >begins to address issues with an alternative to XLink.  That document is
> > >available at http://www.w3.org/TR/hlink/
> 
> Initial impression:  This looks OK.  It finally reinvents
> architectural forms in a way that's usable in XML.

I'm surprised to hear you say this.  HLink looks more about annotating 
attributes for presentation semantics than any form of remapping or 
vocabulary-level adaptation.  Can this then fairly be called a reinvention of 
architectural forms?


> (XLink started to do this, but the omission of any kind
> of attribute renaming facility and the lack of a reliable
> attribute value defaulting scheme made XLink inflexible
> and difficult to use, as Steve Pemberton's message convincingly
> described.  The 'hlink' declaration scheme solves both those 
> problems.)

Ah.  I don't see any attribute renaming in HLink.


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