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Re: linking, 80/20

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: linking, 80/20
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 07:01:22 -0700
• References: <r01050300-1015-5B078B50B2AC11D6B7AA0003937A08C2@[192.168.124.21]>

"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> That said, I think something like Erik Wilde's proposal of looking at
> XLink as an abstraction and permitting the mapping of components from
> other vocabularies into that abstraction works well.
> 
> Link harvesters shouldn't need a whole lot of training to figure out
> that "href==(xlink:href xlink:type='simple') in XHTML."   This is a
> pretty easy transformation.  

That solution is fine for a vocabulary as widely deployed as XHTML. But
how do I communicate that Docbook's linking elements are "really" XLinks
in disguise? Or TEI? Or ...

I think that there needs to be a way to make that declaration out of
line. Perhaps in something like CSS. Perhaps in the schema. Perhaps in
something new altogether.
-- 
"When I walk on the floor for the final execution, I'll wear a denim 
suit. I'll walk in there like Willie Nelson, John Wayne, Will Smith 
-- Men in Black -- James Brown. Maybe do a Michael Jackson moonwalk."
Congressman James Traficant.

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