Re: [xml-dev] Re: Can XLink be fixed?

From
Tim Bray <>
To
"Simon St.Laurent" <>
Date
2002-08-14T18:26:42Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Re: Can XLink be fixed?
Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> Norm Walsh writes:
> 
>>On the other hand, this is an, uhm, LSI, and is sure to be greeted by
>>some with the same enthusiasm as the PSVI :-).
> 
> Provided that there's a clear mechanism for serializing the LSI as XML
> in some easily processed form (XLink-like or not), I suspect you can
> navigate those rocks.

Yeah.  This is the best suggestion I've seen yet for allowing the HTML 
WG to alleviate their angst and auto-magically make their existing link 
vocabulary recognizable (in some sense) as an XLink.  If, however, they 
wanted to insert a general-purpose multi-ended link facility of the sort 
that XLink's complex link was designed for, it would seem best if they 
put it in the XLink namespace and use ordinary xlink:href syntax for the 
purpose.  --Tim