xml-dev - Re: Mapping XHTML to XLink via Architectural Forms

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

At 10:14 AM 10/27/00 -0400, Jonathan Borden wrote:
>    On the other hand if what we need to do is 'in-place' renaming of
>attributes (or elements for that matter) so that <a href="...foo"> becomes
><a xlink:href="...foo"> AF is the easiest (and thus in my book best) way to
>accomplish this, with the strong added benefit that it is already specified,
>standardized and implemented.

I'm still pondering your proposal to move forward, but wanted to add
another data point.  

Eric van der Vlist raised some issues [1] with the recent working draft of
'Syntax of CSS rules in HTML's "STYLE" attribute' [2].  HTML, XHTML, SVG,
and MathML all use this 'style' attribute.  

It's not entirely clear what the namespace status of that attribute is
(since the default NS doesn't apply to attributes), but it's reasonably
clear that it hasn't been defined as a 'global attribute' as described in
(non-normative) A.2 of Namespaces in XML. [3]

More fuel for the fire, I suppose.

[1] - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2000Oct/0244.html
[2] - http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-css-style-attr-20001025
[3] - http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-breakdown

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
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