Re: [xml-dev] RDDL and user interface

Andreas Sewe wrote:

> Jonathan Borden wrote:
>> I suppose that if you are simply looking to use nature and purpose you
>> can simply use rddl:nature and rddl:purpose as a simple vocabulary.
>> Indeed take a look at RDDL2: http://www.rddl.org/rddl2
>
>> Eric Hanson wrote:
>>> I like RDDL as a starting place, but maybe what I'd like to see
>>> is some kind of sister spec for non-human-readable RDDL.
>
> Speaking of RDDL2: What was the reason for abandoning XLink?
>
> I'm curious because the first thing that came to my mind when reading 
> about
> Typekit was that it's basically - in XLink terms - an extended, 
> third-party
> linkbase.
>

RDDL2 came out of discussions on the W3C TAG mailing list and the 
archives of this list contain all the reasoning behind this.

Jonathan