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RE: Re: Can XLink be fixed?


RE:  Re: Can XLink be fixed?
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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