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

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Christopher R. Maden wrote:

> 2) was really killed by politics, as best I can remember;
> architectural forms were completely unviable in the W3C
> environment, and once namespaces came along, it was pretty
> much a requirement to use them.  Without attribute
> remapping, the options were 1) to trample on users' naming
> freedom and reserve href across the board (which is still an
> incomplete solution for HTML), or 3) to use namespace-
> reserved attributes.  I continue to think that, given the
> political restrictions, the XLink WG made the right
> decision.  2) would have been stronger, but AFs just didn't
> make the political grade.

That's what it smelled like from down in the trenches.  It's good to
finally hear someone in the know actually confirm it.


/Jelks





 

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