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> Didier replies: > Like you I am not always please with what's coming out of W3C but most > of all I am not pleased at all having face a schizophrenic behavior and > no consistency. If W3C came out with a link specs, good or bad, its > better that other W3 specs use it for internal consistency or, if a > major breakdown is discovered, that the xlink spec is updated. I won't > defend each groups but I want to know, in a structured document, the > reasons why Xlink is a showstopper for XHTML. It would help to > understand why xlink is broken. I dunno. I myself could not put it so simply, because I'm very happy not to have the W3C wed itself to WXS or XQuery in follow-on specifications. I don't have an empirical objection to providing alternatives to XLink, if these are needed. I just like to see the clear argument as to what is wrong with XLink in the first place. This has been argued to death in the case of WXS, and I think that some very smart people (Clark, Makoto, Jelliffe, Mulani, etc.) have come up with strong reasons for opening up schema language diversity. I'm having trouble (and I know I'm not alone) finding the clear and coherent arguments against XLink. I'm quite open to having my mind changed (and I'm already drifting a tad bit). -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Track chair, XML/Web Services One Boston: http://www.xmlconference.com/ Basic XML and RDF techniques for knowledge management, Part 7 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think12.html Keeping pace with James Clark - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/libra ry/x-jclark.html Python and XML development using 4Suite, Part 3: 4RDF - http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/xml-onlinecourse-bytitle/8A 1EA5A2CF4621C386256BBB006F4CEC
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