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- From: Walter Underwood <wunder@infoseek.com>
- To: xml-dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>, www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org, "xlxp-dev@fsc.fujitsu.com" <xlxp-dev@fsc.fujitsu.com>, "xsl-list@mulberrytech.com" <xsl-list@mulberrytech.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 08:33:25 -0700
At 06:23 AM 5/12/99 -0500, Paul Prescod wrote:
>
>I believe that the XLink behavioral attributes should be removed.
>Theoretically they mix presentation and structure.
I agree that they mix presentation and structure, but I also
feel that it is worthwhile to capture some common situations.
That is, allow people to define link "roles", but start out
with a few standard roles. This is analogous to including
xml:lang in the XML spec.
I'm concerned about XML being less useful than HTML because of
a lack of common elements (conventions). For example, an XML
author has no way to reliably give a web spider a title, description,
or robot hints (follow/nofollow, index/noindex). Also, link roles
could be meaningful to an indexing program -- transcluded text
should be indexed with the source doc, <a>-linked text shouldn't.
I'm hunting down a copy of the PCTE rationale, since it has a
nice description of the link roles in PCTE, and how they got
to that design.
Meanwhile, maybe I should write a NOTE proposing a PI analogous
to the robots meta tag (<?robots index="yes" follow="no"?>).
wunder
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