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Re: Are hyperlinks presentation or content?

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• Subject: Re: Are hyperlinks presentation or content?
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:53:39 -0400
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Tim Bray wrote (re XLink in Opera CSS extensions):
> That depends on whether you believe hyperlinks are structure (which
> is generally believed should be marked-up inline) or presentation
> (which is generally believed should be decoupled from content).  I
> tend to the former, obviously, but I suspect this is a debate that
> will outlive us all.  -Tim

I think in the case of using Opera CSS with DocBook, the links are in
fact marked up in the DocBook document.  The CSS just specifies
particular interactive presentation (processing) for those links.

I'd say both the inline markup and the decoupling are already there.


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