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Paul Prescod wrote: > > > I think that there needs to be a way to make that > > > declaration out of line. Perhaps in something like CSS. > > > Perhaps in the schema. Perhaps in something new altogether. > > > > Perhaps in something like reading the link Arjun Ray provided > > here yesterday ... > > > http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200002/msg00609.html > That's not an *out-of-line* declaration. It is inline and > intrusive for many of the same reasons namespaces are > intrusive. You have to declare them *somewhere*. I don't find a declaration at the top "intrusive" like, say, colonized instances are. Incidently, while searching the archives, I happened across the thread "Mapping XHTML to XLink via Architectural Forms" from almost two years ago ... http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200010/threads.html#00948 Amazing. > Archforms can be moved out-of-line into #FIXED > attributes in a DTD but that requires the existence of a DTD > which is not realistic in the modern world of XML where > people may want to use RELAX or W3C XML Schema. If there were demand -- apparently there still isn't, despite the never-ending namespace madness (see David Megginson's response in the above thread, and note where his quoted XAF link now resolves) -- pertinent mechanisms could easily be put in place. See ... http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/afng.html But back to XHTML and Xlink -- assuming XHTML doesn't completely do away[1] with a DTD (no more 's, folks :), you could certainly do as you describe for mapping 'href' to XLink. An XHTML-aware UA wouldn't *need* the DTD any more than current browsers need the DTD to figure what an is. [1] Yes, that's a big assumption. Namespaces rulez. /Jelks
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