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RE: linking, 80/20

• To: 'Uche Ogbuji' <uche.ogbuji@f...>, "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: RE: linking, 80/20
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:50:08 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

The simple fact is href is an attribute and you 
can't repeat attributes in an element.  So you 
get stuck with multiple names with URI values, 
or you build an element type declaration with 
contained elements with atts with URI values.

We do get hung up in our syntax, don't we?

But we build multiway links all the time. We 
call them treeviews, comboboxes, dropdown 
lists, cascading menus, frames and so on.  If you 
think about it, HTML is just the GUI inside  
the document instead of a document inside 
a GUI.  And it's not fun to move from 
GUI to GUI without an abstract set of types.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Uche Ogbuji [mailto:uche.ogbuji@f...]

I've read *every* link 
that has been pointed out in this thread and all I see after various red 
herrings are marked off is a desire to cling to "href" while adding a handful 
of other similarly limited attributes on the same element as that on which the 
href appears.  If there is any more nuance that I'm missing, then I can change 
my mind when sundry mysterious documents finally appear.  Until then, I'm 
going on what I can see and read.  Period.

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