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rjelliffe@a... wrote: > ?? I don't know that XLink was ever intended to build a community in that > sense: xlink is utility conventions. You don't talk of an XML Namespaces > community either: both are something that people use or don't use to get > some other job done. MathML, that is a community. RDF, HTML, SVG. You > wouldn't have expected an XLink conference, for example. There are plenty of communities around various forms of hypertext - and yes, I'd have been happy to go to an XLink conference. I delivered a fair number of XLink talks to Web developers and even Microsoft developers who were eager to have those tools - but never got them. > I don't know, for example, that it is even possible to have a complete > XLink library (e.g. in Java), except perhaps a set of interfaces or > abstract classes. Not specific enough semantics. I think that may depend on how you interpret complete. Working in every context, probably not. Working within a specific context, a particular interface - sure. > But I do agree that XLink could have been bigger. We ended up with a > linking system with no semantics and usable syntax in XLink and a linking > system with strong semantics and unusable syntax in (initial) RDF. RDFa > still is not officially defined over XML (neither officially nor workable > in practice), so there I think there is still good potential for people to > use XLink+GRDDL. While RDF is certainly related to hypertext, I've never had a strong sense that the RDF community was that interested in creating concrete hypertexts. GRDDL seems to be in a similar place. My general sense is that simple links might better be implemented by giving CSS or schemas a means of designating what content in a given vocabulary is a link, and of what kind. It's just an annotation. External links are still an open field, though. I expect we'll see them implemented through JavaScript eventually, though per-site sandboxing makes them difficult. (That's always been a problem, though.) XML did well. XSL did pretty well. XLL didn't. Thanks, -- Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com/
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