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   Re: [xml-dev] XHTML 2.0 and the death of XLink and XPointer?

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Just for the record:

AndrewWatt2000@aol.com wrote:

>  Background materials at:
> > 
> > 
> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Jun/0116.html
> > And response at:
> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Jul/0158.html
> 
> I read Steven Pemberton's email which you cite to indicate that there is a 
> substantive problem here with XLink.  On that generality we seem to agree.
> 
> However, it did seem to me that at least one point he raises may be a red 
> herring. He comments that "it was too clumsy to use a different namespace" 

It was Tim Berners-Lee who put it that way:

    http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/XLink

and the HTML WG felt it's utterly misrepresenting the whole argument,
that's why he sent a response.  It's not fair to attribute that
sentence to Steven.

Regards,
-- 
Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium




 

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