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RE: XLINK support in browsers

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• Subject: RE: XLINK support in browsers
• From: "Jelks Cabaniss" <jelks@j...>
• Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 16:03:13 -0500
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• In-reply-to: <1112471061.5701.17.camel@marge>

Dave Pawson wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 14:04 -0500, Liam Quin wrote:
> 
>> There are three main approaches to links in the markup world --
>> [1] a fixed vocabulary (html:a, xlink:link)
>> [2] link discovery (e.g. via a style sheet)
> 
> How might a stylesheet help discover a link please Liam?
> (I'm guessing you're talking about an XSLT stylesheet?)

Something like this (through CSS):
	
	http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/#xml-css-link

Another approach which showed promise was HLINK[1].  It was killed in
committee (last I looked, anyway) because it wasn't "XLINK-correct".  

And so we twiddle.  (Or use `<html:a ...>` and `<html:img ...>` hacks.)

[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/hlink/


/Jelks

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