XLink and XForms

In the recent discussions on XLink (or not) I don't think the avoidance of 
XLink in the XForms specification received much (any?) attention.

XForms uses (or currently proposes to use) a src attribute but claims 
conformance to XLink semantics.

The current XForms WD for which comments must be in by 5th September is 
located at
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xforms-20020821/

I have already made several comments which are among those located at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms-editor/2002Aug/

Steven Pemberton made a defence of the avoidance of XLink at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms-editor/2002Aug/0026.html
which I found wholly unconvincing.

Andrew Watt