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Re: linking, 80/20

• To: Erik Wilde <net.dret@d...>
• Subject: Re: linking, 80/20
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:24:12 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l..., Ann Navarro <ann@w...>, "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• References: <3D5EB23A.F74BA6F7@p...> <4.3.2.7.2.20020818100859.00bb5c90@m...> <3D61247A.1050306@d...>

Erik Wilde wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> so what about defining an xlink data model in terms of infoset
> extensions, referencing it in xhtml and defining an xhtml-happy syntax
> for it, and then going ahead and defining a css3 module for link
> formatting? 

So what you're saying is that XHTML and XLink will be hard-coded to
integrate with each other at the prose specification level (rather than
through any syntax) and other vocabularies will have to integrate with
XLink through the intrusive XLink-namespaced attributes? I don't see
that as progress.

> ...
> css3 would require some work, because the selectors would need to be
> extended to cover infoset extensions, and a new module for properly
> handling link formatting would be required. however, i think it would be
> worth it, since this could be used for *any* vocabulary being built on
> the xlink data model.

When a browser sees a new vocabulary how will it know how to map from
the syntax into the XLink data model?

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-- Men in Black -- James Brown. Maybe do a Michael Jackson moonwalk."
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