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Re: Re: Can XLink be fixed?

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• Subject: Re: Re: Can XLink be fixed?
• From: Norman Walsh <ndw@n...>
• Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:38:21 -0400
• In-reply-to: <200208142124.g7ELOG319789@d...> (Joe English'smessage of "Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:24:16 -0700")
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/ Joe English <jenglish@f...> was heard to say:
[...]
| Come to think of it, if the Infoset augmentation is expressed
| as a set of attributes with a distinguished namespace name,
| instead of as a new set of [information item]s, then
| the current XLink draft could work unchanged. 

I don't think that's quite true. The XLink attributes allow you to
express complex linking relationships in a fairly compact form. The
augmented infoset, as proposed in the linking and style note at least,
untangles the compactness and produces a more verbose, but entirely
regular set of "link elements".

| You just
| need to explicitly state that the xlink:* attributes need
| not be present in the source document,

That's already true in the sense that linkbases can be external.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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• References:
  • Re: Can XLink be fixed?
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  • XHTML 2.0 and the death of XLink and XPointer?
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  • Can XLink be fixed?
    • From: Norman Walsh <ndw@n...>
  • Re: Re: Can XLink be fixed?
    • From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>

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