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David, Even if the 19980303 draft does not mention it, that section of the draft was viewed as being outside the scope of what was to be accomplished with XLink. Show and actuate were seen as necessary for the Spec. But the editors of the draft felt uncomfortable about the other "behaviors." They were never going to define any of those behaviors, but just allow an extension mechanism for others to define and use. Sometime after this, the XML Linking WG was formed, and a lot of new people were added to the group. My guess is that the XML Linking WG was either convinced that they should not provide such a mechanism, or because of the changing requirements, and additional work added to the group (splitting into XPointer and XLink, doing XPath with the XSL WG, the work that went into trying to coordinate with the initial efforts to form a XML Query Language WG, and others), decided to drop it for now. Unless XML Linking is going to cover this area of work, somebody should probably make a stab at the spec, and then try to get some support from others, for instance xml-dev, and then bring it to a standards body for further work. Joel Nava From: David Wang > I have a question concerning the XLink working draft. Namely, I > was curious > about the evolution of the XLink concept, so I read some of the > past working > drafts from 1998 and 1999. One thing that caught my attention > was the fact > that the 19980303 draft had a very open and grand notion of "Link > Behavior". > It allowed the author to give hints to the timing of certain > actions like show > and actuate and then define some arbitrary behavior to occur when > the link is > traversed, including: "opening, closing, or scrolling windows or panes... > testing, authenticating, or logging user and context information; > or executing > various programs". *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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