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Re: Mapping XHTML to XLink via Architectural Forms

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 19:30:03 -0400

At 06:47 PM 10/26/00 -0400, Jonathan Borden wrote:
>I read the proposed 'solution' to the problem of XHTML etc links and
>compatibility with XLink (http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink-naming/).
>
>XHTML 1.0 is specified via DTDs as is XHTML 1.1. XLink needs to support this
>W3C recommendation in its current form. Architectural Forms would be a
>fairly straightforward way to solve this problem (and perhaps one of the
>best use cases for AF I've seen -- IMHO).

I think that's a lot of what was intended in the early drafts of XLink:
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-xlink-19980303#remapping

When the attribute remapping was dropped in favor of namespaces, new kinds
of conflicts emerged.

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books

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