[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Xlink Isn't Dead
> >"I don't care about semantics; I only care about meaning!" On 9/23/06, Ben Trafford <ben@p...> wrote: > That's actually not what I was saying, at all. Sorry; it wasn't meant as a paraphrase at all, just a contextual joke. :) > >that uses linking as _part_ of it. Linking by itself means very > >little, in HTML, XML or otherwise. I suspect this debate is once again > > Are you using "means" in the ontological sense? As in, the > presence of link doesn't define what that link means? ... > Then we're in agreement. Indeed. > >It sounds like > >you want there to be more generic application specific things in XML, > >not less. I'm of the "less" opinion, but only because, well, I'm in > >the ontologies camp. :) > > I actually don't see how you're finding a conflict between > getting the styling languages to do something smart with links and > the modelling of more generic ontologies. The word "style" and its "meaning", I suppose. :) To me, style is presentation and as such only a part of an application of something. Links is more than presentation, they speak of things "larger" than that. That's all. At 07:23 PM 9/22/2006, Alexander Johannesen wrote: > >My biggest problem with Xlink were the reclarifications of something > >we all knew from HTML. Why impose a whole standard for linking when > >most people would be happy as larry with xml:href or instead just used > >xhtml:href? 80/20 :) > That's the common misconception. How many webpages do you go > to where basic link functionality has been extended via scripting > tricks? I'm willing to bet it's quite a few. An example: the Flickr > sidebar at http://www.shelter.nu/. Not sure I follow you here. What scripting tricks? What is the *trick*? > xhtml:href does -not- win us the 80/20. That's part of my > point. A lot of people are doing a lot of work, having to wrestle > with making it cross-platform, and it could be solved with XLinks in > a standardized and relatively simple way. <confused> Which part of "80/20 of linking" doesn't xhtml:href cover? </confused> regards, Alex -- "Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know." - Frank Herbert __ http://shelter.nu/ __________________________________________________
[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] |
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|