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On 02/07/2012 09:47, John Cowan wrote: > Chiefly I think because XLink was slow to come out and was too > complicated to hit the 80/20 sweet spot. Now we have revised it to > do so, but it's too late. The revision is better but I think that xlink still isn't "too late" it is _wrong_. The revision means you don't have to specify xlink:type but you still have to use xlink:href and as such I don't think even the revised version would have been used in XHTML (and related contexts) even had it been ready at the time. hyperlinking is central to (X)HTML and so HTML-specific attribute <a href="..."> <img src="..."> are the right thing to do. Forcing end users to declare an extra namespace and rename all the attributes is just wrong. XML doesn't in general reserve element and attribute names so as to give language designers using the syntax freedom over naming language constructs, and that applies just as much to attributes that imply links as any other. David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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