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On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 12:59 +0000, Rushforth, Peter wrote: > [...] > As I understand it, mastery of the web was a goal of > XML, so I'm just dreaming a little. It was not a goal of XML. The primary goal of XML was getting existing SGML documents and work-flows onto the Web. The work was originally called Web SGML. Your comment did I think reach the XML Core Working Group; the group meets two or three times a month for half an hour, so don't expect an immediate response :-) However, I think the first reaction was to point you towards XLink and XPointer. If "mastery of the Web" _had_ been a goal, XML would have been very different, as Jeni Tennyson pointed out in her keynote at XML Prague this year. To answer a more explicit question (from a personal perspective), the cost of introducing xml:href would be risking breaking existing XML systems, which are far more likely to work with xlink:href. And there's no clear benefit. The biggest problem I see with XLink is that it did not address "link discovery through architectural forms" - the process of saying, "in this XML vocabulary, the "cf" attribute on any element with three vowels in the element name is a link constructed by using the template concat(@cf, "?", local-name(), "=", .) I could see great value in such a specification if I thought anyone would implement and use it. Best, Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
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