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Or that one set of types suits all? Or that one set of metatypes suits all? At one point in the saga that was HyTime, links were broken up into types of links so that the problem of how an application structured its data could be accounted for. The classic conundrum was CGM. One wanted to pass it the linking information, but leave it to figure out how to translate that in terms of its own structures and behaviors. Not oddly, over time, the IETM CGM advocates began to make its support more SGML-like, introducing notions such as type definitions. SVG was the admission that one could do vector graphics in markup (long overdue) and get the advantages of a common metastructure that make interoperation with the rest of the framework more tractable. len -----Original Message----- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...] 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.
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