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RE: Re: Can XLink be fixed?

• To: "'Matt Gushee'" <mgushee@h...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Re: Can XLink be fixed?
• From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@n...>
• Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 09:15:44 -0400
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Hi Matt,

Matt said:
They don't do anything at all until browser makers implement them and
developers use them. I wonder how many will feel the benefits to them
are sufficient to abandon the tried-and-true 'href'?

Didier replies:
You are right on this point and the main browser provider on the market
today (i.e. Microsoft) has even not included XHTML 1.0 interpretation in
its browser. Since the browser war is finished and there where a winner,
and we all know, Microsoft is at its best when it encounter competition.
No more competition, no more progress, you are left with a monopoly
behavior.

This said, since XHTML 2.0 went farther in the addition or modification
of the basic features and we really don't know if this will be
implemented by Microsoft, it would be useful, anyway, that the inclusion
of xlink constructs like one to one or one to many links, were included.


Maybe I should write a paper about the usefulness of the one to many
links in an XHTML document. It is possible today to publish an XHTML
document associated to an appropriate XSLT (or a CSS) style sheet to
render one to many link. For instance for texts containing multiple
references for a keyword/word/concept. XHTML can be restated as a
document model not as a rendering language. Having an XHTML version
containing headers, paragraph, links and objects, we can do quite a lot
with these basic constructs. 

Cheers
Didier PH Martin

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