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Re: [Fwd: The problems with Xlink for integration languages]

• To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@j...>
• Subject: Re: [Fwd: The problems with Xlink for integration languages]
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:29:47 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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At 10:22 AM +0100 9/18/02, Jeni Tennison wrote:


>Err, OK. I thought that you'd want to say "here's an image, here's a
>description of the image, here's a map file of the image, here's the
>alternative text for the image" -- in other words that it's somehow
>important conceptually that the src, description, map and alt are
>describing the same *thing*.

Yes, but this is provided by the parent img element.The parent img 
element can have a map file that is the map for this image. It can 
have an alt element that is the alt text for this image, etc. This is 
pretty normal XML. You do not have to use an attribute to associate 
two pieces of information together. In fact, at one extreme you could 
eliminate attributes completely. I'm not suggesting that, but lets 
not go building massive architectures just so we can use attributes 
when an element based solution is so much simpler.
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