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Martin Bryan wrote: >Paul Prescod wrote: > >>I believe that the XLink behavioral attributes should be removed. >Theoretically they mix presentation and structure. This causes all kinds >of practical problems addressed below: > >Behaviour *must* stay. What we need is some mechanism for passing through >behaviour control properties from the instance to the XSLT. The behaviour >attribute provides us with a standardized point which we can query from >within XSLT to determine which types of behaviour a particular instance of >an object should have. In fact the behaviour attribute should move from the >XLink to XML standard, as xml:behaviour-control, but that is is bit too >radical for people to bite off just yet. In the meantime it is vital that at >least XLink provides us with a standardized mechanism for controlling >instance behaviour. (Paul is right to say this is really a "hints" >thing -but it is something more than a hint - it is a set of parameters that >can be used to control behaviour where appropriate.) > Is there anything within XLink itself that cannot be replaced by XSLT now that doc() and docref() have been defined? Does XLink not become something akin to a standard set of XSLT templates used for handling URI traversal? doc() and docref(), as well as unification with XPointer turn XSLT into a generalized graph transformation language. Could the XLink spec itself become an XSLT include file? Jonathan Borden http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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