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Re: linking, 80/20


Re:  linking

>
>Link harvesters shouldn't need a whole lot of training to figure out
>that "href==(xlink:href xlink:type='simple') in XHTML."   This is a
>pretty easy transformation.  In fact, an "XHTML to explicit XLink" XSLT
>stylesheet should be pretty trivial, especially if all you want is to
>build tools which harvest the links.

One of our issues, which has been previously asserted here, is that we want 
to be as processable by a "pure-play" XML browser as any other XML 
vocabulary (yes, we'll be provided a default style sheet people can adopt, 
etc).

Anything that then requires arcane knowledge is not going to be warmly 
embraced as an acceptable solution.

We _are_ XML -- and not horribly complicated XML at that -- the basic 
mechanisms of XML should be able to support XHTML if they are properly 
written or in the case of a current Rec that has proven less than useful to 
communities that include many beyond our own, rewritten.

Ann




>(For our next question, I'd like to take bets on how many times
>namespaces will prove a hassle for HTML's development... So far we've
>had the three-namespaces battle and now this one, so two by my count.)

Funny thing about the three-namespaces battle is that another WG (SVG?) 
went off and did what we proposed back then, and either a) nobody noticed, 
or b) nobody complained.

I suppose being the 800-pound Gorrila of markup makes people nervous when 
we try just about anything.

Ann


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