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>> 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. 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? i don't see any problems with that approach, apart from the fact that there would be a lot of work to do (for example, also persuade the xpath 2.0 folks that they need to provide generic support for infoset extensions and not only the core infoset plus psvi). 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. i think this would be the clean and extensible way to go, even in terms of "pure-play" xml, as ann has put it. cheers, erik wilde - tel:+41-1-6325132 - fax:+41-1-6321035 mailto:net.dret@d... - http://dret.net/ computer engineering and networks laboratory swiss federal institute of technology (eth) * try not. do, or do not. there is no try. *
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