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   Re: [xml-dev] linking, 80/20

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John Cowan wrote:
> 
> Simon St.Laurent scripsit:
> 
> > Allowing href on everything - whether or not it has the unnecessary
> > xlink: namespace slapped on it - is a much larger advance in making
> > hypertext broadly useful than any attempt to rewrite XHTML to take
> > advantage of complex links.
> 
> I agree, actually.  But it wouldn't cost them anything to use
> xlink:href (and a #FIXED attribute of xlink:type="simple") and it
> would make generalized link harvesters that much more useful.

I disagree. There is a cognitive load imposed by requiring authors to
remember what namespaces various features of their markup language come
from. RDF for metadata. DC for a particular ontology. XLink for linking.
XForms for forms. HTML's original virtue was how easy it was to learn
and remember. 
-- 
"When I walk on the floor for the final execution, I'll wear a denim 
suit. I'll walk in there like Willie Nelson, John Wayne, Will Smith 
-- Men in Black -- James Brown. Maybe do a Michael Jackson moonwalk."
Congressman James Traficant.




 

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