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  • From: Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau@y...>
  • To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
  • Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 05:57:54 +0000 (UTC)

PS. Late-breaking, a second and last anecdote (promised). Yesterday evening I was asked questions about violin makers. This morning I suddenly remembered to have a novel about one ("Le violon noir", Maxence Fermine). Pulled it from the bookcase, opened it and read: "La vraie musique est entre les notes." Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Am Samstag, 13. Juni 2020, 07:33:18 MESZ hat Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau@y...> Folgendes geschrieben:


Dear colleagues,

given the paramount importance of resource relationships, the effort seems justified to think about them carefully and patiently.

Apologies for bothering you with a personal anecdote, and you can safely skip it and resume reading at "question 1". Last night, immediately before going to sleep, looking for some detail I leafed through the XLink specification (1). Today, in the early morning, grey and audible with the calls of doves, I awoke still entangled in a dream. I had dreamed of a system of rivers, defined on board of ships traveling on rivers. Jointly they defined a system consisting of real rivers, the ones they traveled on, like Rhein or Elbe, and tiny artificial ones, which existed on board of a ship, like a swimming pool, connecting different ends. Awaking, I gazed at those vague images and heard a voice saying "I do not find this convincing", alas, not giving any reasons.

QUESTION 1. Why is XLink little adopted - can you identify important mistakes or omissions?
QUESTION 2. Imagining for a moment, XLink were widely adopted, would a "link::" axis in XPath make sense, enabling expressions like:
   / ancestor::airports / child::airport / link::airportDetails / @name

Kind regards,
Hans-Jürgen



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