Re: [xml-dev] Re: Can XLink be fixed?

[Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>]

Simon St.Laurent wrote:

>   I could certainly live with:
> 
> <img>
>   <src xlink:href="whatever.gif" />
>   <longdesc xlink:href="item.txt" />
>   <alt>This is alt text</alt>
> </img>

It gets more interesting when you add

   ...
   <src type="thumbnail" xlink:href="whateverTN.gif" />
   <longdesc xml:lang="JA-jp" xlink:href="expl-nihongo.html" />


> I'm not sure I feel confident, however, that it's the one and only
> correct answer.  

No more am I.  But it feels quite a bit cleaner than what we have now. -Tim