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Hi Len, XLink can provide the syntax and very basic linking semantics on top of which this can be built. It only becomes hard if you insist that XLink must define all possible linking semantics and behavior for all applications that use it. This is a mini version of the common markup fallacy that one vocabulary suits all uses. Didier replies: Exactly. I just hope Len that lessons of the past have been understood but what I see happening these days do not lead me to think otherwise. I just did an experiment with an XHTML document containing xlinks and an SVG document containing xlink. The beauty is that I could process both the same stylesheet in order to extract the links and consider these documents only as link base. You know, from a practical point of view, the usefulness of re-using the same specs is simply translated into re-use of actual code (in that case XSLT code). In terms of business we increase the ROI on our investment in XML. But I guess that information overload, knowledge re-use, ROI are all foreign words not part of the WG vocabulary. Or maybe I am missing something and just made fool of myself. If only we could know why the WG do not want to re-use the Xlink specs. Politics? Interests of some parties? More noble intentions? Cheers Didier PH Martin
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