RE: xlxp-dev: XSL and editing tools

Hi Mike.

I agree with you, from a given viw point. To spin the matter the other way
one might say that XLink currently has a lot
of actuation semantics. I *think* XLink is supposed to be describing
"usage" links rather than just indexes.... otherwise
it would be XIndex :)

Cheers
     Guy.





xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 04/23/99 12:32:13 AM

To:   xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc:    (bcc: Guy Murphy/UK/MAID)
Subject:  RE: xlxp-dev: XSL and editing tools




> Paul Prescod had an excellent suggestion (forwarded below) on
> xlxp-dev, the
> XLink/XPointer list, regarding XSL, CSS, and editing documents.  The
> discussion began with the issue of keeping track of links when your
> document is being transformed, but it quickly became clear that links
> aren't the only thing that's difficult to track.
I think the real problem is that XLink as currently conceived has a lot of
presentation semantics. In XML I usually represent relationships using
database-style foreign keys rather than XLink-style URLs, and I regard it
as
a function of the rendering process to translate these foreign keys into
navigable hyperlinks where appropriate.
Mike Kay

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