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RE: RDDL(2): new version up

• To: "DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO)" <bob.ducharme@l...>
• Subject: RE: RDDL(2): new version up
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:33:36 -0500
• Cc: XML Developer List <xml-dev@l...>
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At 1:22 PM -0500 1/21/04, DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) wrote:
>The idea is that instead of using n different attributes for n purposes, one
>attribute, href, is used to identify the URL and others
>(http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/#link-semantics) are used to identify the
>purpose.

Of course, the problem with this is that you might need multiple 
links with different purposes from a single element..

Really, though, when this happens that's the clue that it's time to 
start looking at extended links. The links are no longer simple. :-(
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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