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   Re: [xml-dev] XLink olden days

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Simon St.Laurent scripsit:

> I think the notion is that XLink was originally a toolkit for describing
> linking semantics, which used an architectural forms [based|like]

An architectural form *exactly*.  That's where the attribute-renaming
and link-type (which is really element-renaming) stuff comes from.

> In later drafts, post-namespaces, XLink became just a vocabulary.  To
> use XLink, you must use attributes in the XLink namespace.  

It occurs to me that the shift from SGML-style renaming to namespaces
is essentially like the shift from uucp email addressing to domainist
(@-based) email addressing.  We've gone from an environment where mail
is routed based on the best discoverable path from here to there,
to a system in which every mail destination has an absolute name
which says nothing about delivery.

Almost everybody, except perhaps Peter Honeyman, agrees that this is an
improvement.

-- 
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"In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."
        --Brian K. Reid




 

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