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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 / "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> was heard to say: | Norm Walsh writes: |> In any event, I think it's quite a leap from "the TAG thinks HTML |> should use XLink" to "the whole world must use XLink (or some other |> technology)" | | I'm sorry, but I don't see the distinction, Really. Uhm. "Group A thinks Group B should use technology C". vs. "Group A thinks everybody should use technology C". The former is compatible with other Groups using (or not using) technology C as appropriate. The latter isn't. What the TAG said was firmly in the former class. | except that XHTML operates | under W3C auspices and is therefore more easily ordered about. I can sometimes order my dog about, that's as far as my command extends. | The W3C | continuously and unapologetically keeps turning out "XML-whatever" | specifications, promoting this notion of the W3C as keeper of a coherent | "XML family" of specs, and getting rather snippy whenever their | technical judgment or political wisdom is challenged. Is this relevant? | (Given how lousy a fit XLink is to what the XHTML WG seems to be trying | to accomplish, the generic-trumps-specific message seems remarkably | plain.) I don't think it's a lousy fit. And yes, I think generic trumps specific sometimes. In particular, I think the fact that SVG, MathML (maybe), XBRL, and others are using XLink, and Mozilla is starting to support it, means there's value in using it in XHTML. | It's time to get over the notion that a committee of experts can solve | semantic problems for a wide range of problems. It was very nice of the | W3C to provide a home for the simplification of SGML and give us a | useful syntax, but the results since then have been hideous - and in | large part because the world takes the W3C's pretensions seriously. <shrug/> Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman.Walsh@S... | One's never alone with a rubber duck. XML Standards Architect | Sun Microsystems, Inc. | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE9mI9aOyltUcwYWjsRAthMAJ4rVEQTAjsD+/RZ3ZsgF7eKzbLFhwCePqFb cWvJOLB4RBQICZ7hoYWZDN8= =gfZE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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