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On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 06:06:07PM +0100, Michael Kay wrote: [...] > If XLink isn't in the user interface space then I don't know what it's > doing: I don't want standard attributes for defining relationships, I want > to define my own. There are three main approaches to links in the markup world -- [1] a fixed vocabulary (html:a, xlink:link) [2] link discovery (e.g. via a style sheet) [3] dynamic/programmed links (e.g. "every word or phrase in this list is a link to the corresponding encyclopedia entry") With each of these, links can be stored inline or externally. XLink handles only case [1], although this approach has meant that the WG failed to meet their requirement to support HTML markup (however broken one might consider that markup to be, with user-visible text in attributes all over the place!). > I think XLink has never really decided whether it's in the "information > content" space or the "user interface" space, and that's why no-one is using > it. Agreed, although I think that's not the only reason. People don't generally see enough benefit in using someone else's markup to represent relationships. There _are_ users of XLink, by the way, both within W3C (e.g. SVG) and outside (GML I believe to be an example). Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
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