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Ari Krupnik wrote: > Isn't that what killed the idea of XML as something you can directly > display in a browser? That XML+CSS gave you everything HTML gave you > except, you know, links? Not really. I think what killed that vision was poor browser support. Not that the lack of links wasn't a problem; just that we never really got far enough for it to become a practical issue. That may be starting to change. I suspect the working group could have pulled off a really nice 80/20 solution by simply defining an xml:href attribute and declaring victory. HTML won over competing hypertext technologies in large part by making links much, much simpler. Sadly XML didn't really learn that lesson. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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