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Paul Prescod writes:
> "Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
> > That said, I think something like Erik Wilde's proposal of looking
> > at XLink as an abstraction and permitting the mapping of components
> > from other vocabularies into that abstraction works well.
> >
> > Link harvesters shouldn't need a whole lot of training to figure out
> > that "href==(xlink:href xlink:type='simple') in XHTML." This is a
> > pretty easy transformation.
>
> That solution is fine for a vocabulary as widely deployed as XHTML.
> But how do I communicate that Docbook's linking elements are "really"
> XLinks in disguise? Or TEI? Or ...
>
> I think that there needs to be a way to make that declaration out of
> line. Perhaps in something like CSS. Perhaps in the schema. Perhaps in
> something new altogether.
Yes, it's yet-another-packaging-problem, and no one wants to go near
packaging. For now, RDDL seems like a good place to put this
information, as does a MIME Content-type registration.
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Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA
http://simonstl.com may be my URI
http://monasticxml.com may be my ascetic URI
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether
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