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Re: XLink/XHTML consensus?

• To: Arjun Ray <aray@n...>
• Subject: Re: XLink/XHTML consensus?
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:10:52 -0600
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Arjun Ray <aray@n...> of "Thu, 19 Sep 2002 23:34:13 -0000." <3gmkouo7emkadkj10dq9nr90473kpljlju@4...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> [rearranged]
> 
> "Wayne Steele" <xmlmaster@h...> wrote:
> 
> | Downsides to this system:
> |    1. It uses DTDs
> |    2. It uses Notations
> |    3. It requires a non-xml syntax to be created (to represent link behavour 
> | and semantics, with is then stuffed into a Notation's Public ID)
> 
> Demonizing DTDs is one thing, but to call declaration syntax "non-xml" is
> nothing more than prejudice.  If it were true, the XML *spec* wouldn't
> have bothered with specifying syntax for declarations.  I mean, really.

Tsk.  Tsk.  Tsk.  Way too prickly, Arjun.  From my reading, what he was 
calling non-XML was not DTD syntax but the "xlink: show=new actuate=onLoad" 
that gets stuffed into the notation pub ID, as a replacement from the XML 
attribute syntax used in XLink.  In fact this is crystal clear from his 
message, I think.

So take a deep breath now...

:-)


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